Robert, What kind of filesystem is on /media/robert/Shared? It is likely that /media/robert/Shared is a fat32, exfat, or NTFS filesystem. These filesystems do not support posix permissions and therefore any attempt to change the permissions/ownership will fail.
You stated that, "I know that the reported owner and group are lies ... because if the owner were in fact root, I would not be able to create, modify, and delete files as robert." Looking at your screenshot, it appears that permissions for "Others" are set as "Create and delete files". This grants any user on the system permission to create and delete files (including robert). Have you tried to reproduce the issue with files on /home/robert/ ? Thanks -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1830987 Title: Cannot change directory owner or group To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/caja/+bug/1830987/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
