storage is readonly

[zhaozhiwei1992]

zeal-version: 0.6.1
os: Linux archlinux 4.20.0-arch1-1-ARCH

after mkdir (.local/share/Zeal/Zeal/docsets) by myself , it works

[trollixx]

There are problems with the read-only detection on Windows (#1036), now we discovered one on Linux. :(

[brejoc]

On Ubuntu (bionic) this is not working for me. Are we really talking about ~/.local/share/Zeal/Zeal/docsets here?

[yfcube]

On Ubuntu (bionic) this is not working for me. Are we really talking about ~/.local/share/Zeal/Zeal/docsets here?

Yes it's indeed ~/.local/share/Zeal/Zeal/docsets works for me on Ubuntu 16.04

[rotu]

👍 After installing Zeal from apt on Ubuntu, I too had to mkdir -p ~/.local/share/Zeal/Zeal/docsets.

[trollixx]

@rotu Is there something special about how the home directory setup? Different user/group/permissions?

[rotu]

@trollixx Not AFAICT. The permission flags on ~/.local/share are drwx------ and I am the owner. AFAICT, Zeal should have had no trouble creating this directory.

[trollixx]

zeal/src/libs/ui/docsetsdialog.cpp

Line 86 in 58b9276

m_isStorageReadOnly = !fi.isWritable();

I think it may be failing when path does not exist...

[LawrenceXia2008]

On windows, installing with Installer(MSI) style may rise this error. Then you can try install with Portable style, this will not rise any questions in Docset using. Hope this work for others.

[eromoe]

After I moved zeal-portable from C: to D: , it gave me this error .

[trollixx]

@eromoe please try the CI build from AppVeyor.

[everyoneknowsadave]

The issue is relative vs absolute paths.

It shows up at a full path in Windows E:\blah blah\zeal\docsets

But you click "Browse", and locate it, and select location, it just puts "docset" as the directory. And then it works and finds previous docsets.

[zany130]

im getting this issue on garuda linux had to mkdir -p ~/.local/share/Zeal/Zeal/docsets

[iambrojohnson]

I'm experiencing the same issue too
My OS is PopOs
Tried every solutions here but nothing is woking