# LibrePCB is Unable to Access Second Drive
**URL:** https://librepcb.discourse.group/t/librepcb-is-unable-to-access-second-drive/556
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [June 23, 2023, 4:44pm UTC](https://librepcb.discourse.group/t/librepcb-is-unable-to-access-second-drive/556 "2023-06-23T16:44:17Z")
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### Author:  [@allan.w.macdonald](https://librepcb.discourse.group/u/allan.w.macdonald)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2023, 4:44pm UTC](https://librepcb.discourse.group/t/librepcb-is-unable-to-access-second-drive/556/1 "2023-06-23T16:44:17Z")
I have a second storage drive, automounted at /Data and LibrePCB seems to be unable to access it.
I am forced to use the home heirarchy to create the workspace but I don’t want to do that. How can I get LibrePCB to recognize the second mounted drive? As far as I understand, the access permissions to the drive are correct.
This is a new install of LibrePCB via snap on a recent clean install of Ubuntu 22.04LTS.
uname -a
Linux ubuntubox 5.19.0-45-generic #46~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT\_DYNAMIC Wed Jun 7 15:06:04 UTC 20 x86\_64 x86\_64 x86\_64 GNU/Linux
About LibrePCB Details:
LibrePCB Version: 0.1.7
Git Revision: ba553c6fb
Build Date: 2022-10-03T12:33:29
Qt Version: 5.9.5 (built against 5.9.5)
CPU Architecture: x86\_64
Operating System: Ubuntu Core 18
Platform Plugin: xcb
TLS Library: OpenSSL 1.1.1 11 Sep 2018
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### Author:  [@allan.w.macdonald](https://librepcb.discourse.group/u/allan.w.macdonald)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2023, 5:09pm UTC](https://librepcb.discourse.group/t/librepcb-is-unable-to-access-second-drive/556/2 "2023-06-23T17:09:58Z")
I figured it out! The problem had something to do with the application being packaged as a snap package though I’m not sure why this particular snap package has these restrictions while other snap packages such as firefox do not. After I changed the mount point of the external drive in my fstab to a directory under my home heirarchy (and rebooted), I can now access the files there.
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### Author:  [@ubruhin](https://librepcb.discourse.group/u/ubruhin)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2023, 9:17am UTC](https://librepcb.discourse.group/t/librepcb-is-unable-to-access-second-drive/556/3 "2023-06-26T09:17:33Z")
Hi,
The corresponding permission needs to be enabled manually, see installation instructions: [Installation on Linux | LibrePCB Documentation](https://librepcb.org/docs/installation/linux/#snap)
> [@allan.w.macdonald](#):
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> I’m not sure why this particular snap package has these restrictions while other snap packages such as firefox do not
Default permissions cannot be set by application developers, but only by the Snap administrators. I think for a popular app like Firefox it’s a no-brainer for them to give more permissions, but I doubt we can get this permission for LibrePCB…