On a perfectly installed Linux Mint PC, running Ubuntu 18.04 under the hood, you suddenly get the following message when inserting a USB Stick into the computer:
Unable to mount USB STICK Not authorized to perform operation
Solution
If it’s installed, uninstall Chrome Remote Desktop:
sudo apt autoremove chrome-remote-desktop
10 thoughts on “Linux Mint – Unable to mount USB STICK – Not authorized to perform this operation”
And how are we supposed to use Chrome Remote Desktop? Why did it work before WITH CRD and suddenly it doesn’t?
Thanks alot, I couldn’t figure out what the problem was and this was it
you can just kill the process temperately if you do not want to uninstall remote desktop.
Thanks for sharing this, I couldn’t never figure it out otherway.
Thank You!!
Also affects mint 20.x.
I would have never guessed this!!
It worked on Mint 20.1, after a month of looking for a solution.
Thanks a lot!
Thank You ~!~ been spending multiple months tinkering with folder & file permissions to no avail.
Resolves the same issue in Ubuntu 20.04
Thanks for help me.
I made this orientation and it’s came to working !