I have been using Zorin 18.1 for about 3 months and I absolutely love it except for working in Terminal. After I fist installed it I scanned a document to my computer and could not open it because ownership was Root and try as I might I could not change it. Also I need to be able to format USB drives as NTFS and that has been a nightmare. I tried installing the NTFS and Fuse using SUDO APT Install and terminal responded "cannot locate package". I definitely need some help here. Many thanks in advance.
Did you try to format the usb drive with the app "disks" or "gparted" (you can install gparted with sudo apt install gparted). I think, you don't need to install ntfs and fuse, they are preinstalled.
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If you go into System-level folders an option to turn into "sudo" or "administrator" could show up, Where all you'd have to do is write the password to your account and... well, I think it'll be enough to open the document.
Although that's generally not a good fix to the problem... Cuz yknow, It would be better to find a way to fix the problem to begin with... How you made the file "Root"
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To change the Ownership of a File, type in Terminal:
sudo chown Your-User-Name:Your-User-Name /Path/To/File
Both are already preinstalled. So, You shouldn't need to install these. Like @Forpli already wrote: Try GParted.
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Hello and welcome. Zorin is a Ubuntu (and Debian) based distribution, so maybe this help : The Linux command line for beginners - Ubuntu Desktop documentation
Take your time to understand and if you begin in GNU/ Linux systems, go to Zorin / Ubuntu documentation and try to find out a GUI alternative as Gparted mentioned here earlier. Enjoy your journey on Zorin 