# Local drive access permission question
**URL:** https://forum.torproject.org/t/local-drive-access-permission-question/5846
**Category:** Tor Browser Desktop
**Tags:** tor-browser
**Created:** [December 9, 2022, 10:21am UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/local-drive-access-permission-question/5846 "2022-12-09T10:21:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@michaelbr](https://forum.torproject.org/u/michaelbr)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2022, 10:21am UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/local-drive-access-permission-question/5846/1 "2022-12-09T10:21:40Z")
I’m using Tor 12.0 in MX Linux 21, I can connect without any problem, when I tried to import bookmarks from an HTML file or when I try to save a downloaded file to my local drive, I got an error “permission denied”. Tor browser can only see folders in my home dir under Tor. Is there a setting in Tor that I can allow access to other folders beside my home drive?
ps: I seems to remember something about access rights during install, but I don’t recall the details.
Thanks for your comments/suggestion
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### Author:  [@HackerNCoder](https://forum.torproject.org/u/HackerNCoder)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2022, 10:33am UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/local-drive-access-permission-question/5846/2 "2022-12-09T10:33:50Z")
As far as I just tested, Tor Browser shouldn’t stop you from reading and writing to wherever you have rights . If your user doesn’t have write/read rights then Tor Browser will not be able to read/write to that place. So ensure that you have that.
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### Author:  [@michaelbr](https://forum.torproject.org/u/michaelbr)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2022, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/local-drive-access-permission-question/5846/3 "2022-12-09T15:58:01Z")
Not sure if during installation I made a mistake or not, my MX Linux is installed on a 512MB SSD and my data on a separate HD, I have no problem accessing data from Linux user, but when I tried to open my HTML bookmark file stored in data, Tor said permission denied, the same when I tried to save to data, the only place it allowed me to save is in /home/michael/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86\_64/tor-browser\_en-US/Browser/Downloads/
Thanks for your comments/suggestion
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### Author:  [@HackerNCoder](https://forum.torproject.org/u/HackerNCoder)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2022, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/local-drive-access-permission-question/5846/4 "2022-12-09T15:59:02Z")
It looks like you are using torbrowser-launcher, I believe it includes configuration to limit Tor Browser, probably that is why.
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### Author:  [@michaelbr](https://forum.torproject.org/u/michaelbr)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/local-drive-access-permission-question/5846/5 "2022-12-09T18:46:29Z")
Yes, I’m using torbrowser-launcher, according the info I got from internet, launcher will launch Tor browser, so the settings and access rights should be the same or I’m mistaken?
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### Author:  [@HackerNCoder](https://forum.torproject.org/u/HackerNCoder)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2022, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/local-drive-access-permission-question/5846/6 "2022-12-09T18:49:21Z")
No, torbrowser-launcher also includes an AppArmor profile which only allows it to read and write to a minimum of places: [torbrowser-launcher/torbrowser.Browser.firefox at develop · micahflee/torbrowser-launcher · GitHub](https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher/blob/develop/apparmor/torbrowser.Browser.firefox)
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### Author:  [@michaelbr](https://forum.torproject.org/u/michaelbr)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2022, 7:09pm UTC](https://forum.torproject.org/t/local-drive-access-permission-question/5846/7 "2022-12-09T19:09:34Z")
Thanks so much for your clarification.