And it just got really interesting. After fighting this issue for hours, I gave up and resolved to copying by terminal.
By force of habit, I accidently used nautilus once more to copy, after copying a batch of files by terminal, and presto, it works. Nautilus now copies files without complaining. I don't understand what happens here. Some cache of file / partition permissions that went old and was refreshed? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1021375 Title: Nautilus says the USB stick is read only when it is not To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/1021375/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
