"Error opening directory : permission denied" when I want to export

Cletip

Hello everyone

I'm just trying to export my library to another format in some places, and I get the following error when I try to "open" some folders to choose the conversion location: 
"Error opening directory 'the/path/to/directory' : permission denied"

I have the impression that this happens when I open a dotfiles only.

Moreover, when I start zotero, I get the following error

sed: can't read /home/user/.config/user-dirs.dirs: Permission denied
/snap/zotero-snap/41/snap/command-chain/desktop-launch: line 261: /home/user/.config/user-dirs.dirs: Permission denied
cp: cannot open '/home/user/.config/user-dirs.locale' for reading: Permission denied
/snap/zotero-snap/41/snap/command-chain/desktop-launch: line 266: /home/user/.config/user-dirs.locale: Permission denied

But Zotero start.

I normally have all the permissions, checking with these commands :

ls -a -l | grep .config
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 17 Apr 26 15:47 .config -> .dotfiles/.config

ls .config/ -a -l | grep user
-rwxrwxrwx 1 user user 640 Mar 22 21:23 user-dirs.dirs
-rwxrwxrwx 1 user user 5 Mar 22 21:23 user-dirs.locale

I also tried to delete the cache with this :
rm -r snap/zotero-snap/common/.cache/zotero/
but nothing works.

I must be missing something simple, but I don't know what

Thanks in advance for your answers

dstillman

You're using a third-party package that uses sandboxing. We can only help with the official tarball, which doesn't use sandboxing.

Cletip

Ok I understand, I will try with the "normal" Zotero installation.
It must have been marked somewhere what you just said, sorry for the little waste of time. Thanks for your answer!

Cletip

It works perfectly with the normal version of Zotero, sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for the "tip"!