Ubuntu – Unable to access external hard drive – “Not authorized to perform operation” – Ubuntu 18.04

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Recently I connected my external HDD on my Ubuntu 18.04, but it is showing the error

Unable to Access drive-Not authorized to perform operation.

However, my HDD is working fine on windows.
How can I solve this issue?

Best Answer

If you happen to have chrome-remote-desktop installed as a Chrome Browser Extension there's a good chance that is the cause of problem.

If so, see Automount when clicking on disks in GUI file manager suddenly stopped working in Ubuntu 18.04 for solution.

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