Ah finally figure out the source of this brokenness .... I'm also suffering from this - for 15+ years now my home directory has largely consisted of symbolic links to directories in other mounted file systems (not mounted under /mnt)
I can't upload PCB gerber files to get PCBs made, I can't upload .csv files to the fulfillment service that ships my products to customers - chromium is largely broken, I can't download files into /tmp so I don't have delete them later I think the problem is at Canonical has decided how home directories should be rather than going out and find out how they actually are - it may be "working as intended" but it's still broken How do we turn this stuff completely off? or at least be able to whitelist paths rather than this nanny-state crap -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1851250 Title: [snap] chromium-browser snap cannot upload files outside ~ Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: After upgrading from 19.04 to 19.10, my Chromium package was converted to a snap. After figuring out how to manually reconnect the password manager, and figuring out how to apply CHROMIUM_FLAGS that used to live in /etc/chromium-browser/default, and noticing that GMail is no longer able to play a sound when a call comes in, now I see that I am unable to upload files from anywhere except my home directory! Connecting chromium:removable-media as in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium- browser/+bug/1832711 does not help with anything else. Is there some way to let the file upload dialog work on any file my user account has access to? Or run this snap in --classic mode? If not, this seems like a critical limitation, as I need this multiple times a day. Switching to Chrome or Firefox cannot be the only workaround for this, surely? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1851250/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
