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I click save in Apache openoffice I don't see a way to save to external media. Going up a level only takes me as far as the hard drive will go.

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    Search the /media folder
    – Pyrophorus
    Sep 17, 2014 at 15:44

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Go up all the way (to /)

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Open media/<USERNAME>/<DEVICENAME> then save it.

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The same applies to Libre Office

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Assuming the external media is otherwise accessible (i.e., attached and successfully mounted), depending on what version of Ubuntu you're running, it is probably accessible at:

  • /media/username/volumename, or
  • especially in older versions of Ubuntu, /media/volumename.

Replace username with your actual username and volumename with the volume's label (or UUID if it has no label).

In practice, all you likely have to do is go up as high as you can in the folder hierarchy, then go into the folder called media. It will be somewhere in there, and usually there are only a few things there, so you should be able to find it.


Ubuntu, like other Unix-like operating systems, mounts all filesystems in the same directory hierarchy. Everything is somewhere under /. Empty folders1 serve as mount points, where other filesystems (which may even be on other physical disks) are attached.

This is sometimes confusing to users familiar with OSes that do it differently, such as Windows. (In Windows, filesystems may be mounted anywhere, but in practice are usually assigned their own drive letters.)

In Ubuntu, removable media are most commonly mounted somewhere inside /media. This usually happens automatically when you connect an external device.

1: Well, they should be empty--otherwise things get confusing. You don't have to worry about that though, unless you're manually mounting filesystems with the mount command. Automatic mounts that happen when you plug a drive into your computer are always on empty folders created automatically during the mounting process.

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