I have a 2TB Western Digital My Passport Drive that I use quite frequently for work. It is formatted as a FAT32 Filesystem and up to this point I have had no issues.
At work I use two different computers, one is a Windows 10 machine and the other is Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I still have no issues moving the drive between those two machines.
Recently I decided to give Ubuntu Gnome 17.04 a try at home, so I jumped in and made my home machine Gnome. The Passport now shows up on the Gnome machine only as Read Only and when I try to access any Media directory, I get an error telling me that one or more of the files in the folder is corrupt and cannot open.
I have to admit I am stumped. I'm no genius, but I figure if it works fine on the other two machines, it should work fine on this one as well, Yes?
Can anyone give me a hint, please?
Thanks in Advance.
chkdsk /f d:
changing the "d" to the correct drive letter, and see if that finds/fixes any problems. Lastly, I'd propose that you consider a NTFS partition, instead of FAT32.