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I am using Ubuntu 12.04. When I try to take a screenshot with the default screenshot utility or Shutter a dialog box appears saying that /home/user/Pictures is a read-only file system.

I checked the permission of the folder but it was set to the default value: creating and deleting files. What might have gone wrong here? How can I solve this?

This I didn't have this problem before, not even yesterday. And as far as I remember, I didn't install any software that might have changed the permissions.

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    What is your folder's owner and group on the file permissions?
    – Hckr
    Nov 12, 2012 at 14:04
  • The owner of that folder is me, that is minhaz, the permission is drwxr-xr-x
    – Ratul
    Nov 12, 2012 at 15:18
  • I can take screenshots again :/ No errors or whatsoever! I wonder what was the problem, and how it got solved. I just shut off my PC for a while, and now it's gone!
    – Ratul
    Nov 12, 2012 at 15:27

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Reset to default
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can you manually make a file in Pictures? One command to do so is this:

touch ~/Pictures/test.fyle
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  • Yes, I can do so from terminal. Only the sceenshot applications seem to have the permission problem. I can even save images in that folder with Gimp!
    – Ratul
    Nov 12, 2012 at 15:10
  • Thanks for looking in to my problem @psny :) The problem is solved. When you asked if I can manually make files, I tried that with terminal as well as with Gimp. Then Tried out Shutter again, and it worked!
    – Ratul
    Nov 12, 2012 at 15:29
  • you're welcome. I'm not sure what happened, though.
    – philshem
    Nov 13, 2012 at 0:46

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