[Bug 1836970] [NEW] I cannot get permission to move any files or access drives

[lew1950]

Public bug reported:

I have tried everything to recover from an upgrade to bionic beaver. It has changed my permissions to root and I cannot change that back I have all my work and music saved on here. I have tried chmod but it ignores it I also in the past used Krusader  in the sudo it would change files easily none of these work anymore and I have a book on here that I need to save.
desperate!!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.14.12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-15.16~18.04.1-generic 4.18.20
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.394
Date: Wed Jul 17 22:56:23 2019
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190210)
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic ubiquity-18.04.14.12 ubuntu

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Title:
  I cannot get permission to move any files or access drives

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I have tried everything to recover from an upgrade to bionic beaver. It has changed my permissions to root and I cannot change that back I have all my work and music saved on here. I have tried chmod but it ignores it I also in the past used Krusader  in the sudo it would change files easily none of these work anymore and I have a book on here that I need to save.
  desperate!!

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubiquity 18.04.14.12
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-15.16~18.04.1-generic 4.18.20
  Uname: Linux 4.18.0-15-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.394
  Date: Wed Jul 17 22:56:23 2019
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190210)
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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