Microsoft's newest NTFS filesystem is known to not play nice with Linux. You gotta move the data off the drive (if it matters), format the drive to ext4, then move the data back into it (if it matters).

>>1562401
can you modify your files?
On my WSL I sometimes need to give myself file permissions for my windows files

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A lot of distros mount NTFS partitions as read only. Check if that's true in your case. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NTFS

>>1562407
Good advice. In this case OP has installed Cinnamon Mint which comes with NTFS read/write by default. I think we might have had to install ntfs-3g for all flavours of Mint a few years ago but not now.

>>1562402
Not sure that's the best advice. NTFS not playing nicely with Linux is years old news, that the latest revision is doing the same thing is nothing new. Telling OP he has to move data off the drive, reformat, move back is very rarely necessary. It's a good idea, though move once is better, if he has no need for an NTFS drive but necessary is not the same as advisable, More importantly, OP hasn't explained his use case and we don't know if he wants to keep the ntfs drive as ntfs or not.

>>1562401
If you were using fastboot for windows, windows can prevent writes to the ntfs drive. The easiest solution is boot into windows and disable fastboot before shutting down. Hibernation is sometimes a problem too, and the swap file. Turn all those options off. Even when using a portable drive, you are better off ejecting it in windows than shutting down windows with it attached because windows can write data during shutdown.

>steam download location
Not a big steam user so I don't know but steam might have to deprecate the existing location by deleting or modifying files in its existing location. If it can't currently write to the drive it can't do that. Fixing the general ntfs problem might resolve that the steam relocation. Just guessing.