# So what's the deal with SNAP & COMMON folders?

**URL:** <https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/so-whats-the-deal-with-snap-common-folders/843>\
**Category:** Budgie Desktop\
**Created:** [August 10, 2018, 9:52pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/so-whats-the-deal-with-snap-common-folders/843 "2018-08-10T21:52:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![JohnHart](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/johnhart/32/511_2.png) [@JohnHart](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/JohnHart)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 9:52pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/so-whats-the-deal-with-snap-common-folders/843/1 "2018-08-10T21:52:19Z")

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I’m still noobie here. When I download a file from Firefox and specify where I want the file to go, I have the feeling Budgie has other plans.

Say I download a vid from YouTube. To ‘Downloads’.

1. If I go to the Downloads folder in Files, it’s not there.

2. If I ask Firefox to reveal the downloaded file location, FF doesn’t take me anywhere but instead informs me it’s in

home/me/snap/firefox/common/downloads

1. and wants to open it instead of reveal it (WTF?!?)

2. And so to actually get to that file I have to manually go get it.

What am I missing people? I want a download to appear where I asked not in some maze of mysterious folders.

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**Author:** ![Coeur-Noir](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/coeur-noir/32/4515_2.png) [@Coeur-Noir](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/Coeur-Noir)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/so-whats-the-deal-with-snap-common-folders/843/2 "2018-08-11T00:00:05Z")

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Snap’s sandboxing.

It means your Firefox is a _snap_ package, instead of the easy legacy _apt_ package.

Was that snap installation of Firefox made on purpose ?

I don’t think Budgie comes by default with Firefox as a snap… does it ?

Those commands may help :

```auto
snap interfaces <snap>
```

```auto
snap connect <snap>:<plug>
```

to find what can be connected to Firefox ?

```auto
sudo snap connect firefox:removable-media
```

…I did not try myself.

inspiration sources : [https://docs.snapcraft.io/reference/snap-command#interfaces](https://docs.snapcraft.io/reference/snap-command#interfaces) and [https://askubuntu.com/questions/1035985/how-to-setup-gimp-2-10-on-ubuntu-16-04-xenial-xerus](https://askubuntu.com/questions/1035985/how-to-setup-gimp-2-10-on-ubuntu-16-04-xenial-xerus)

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**Author:** ![JohnHart](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/johnhart/32/511_2.png) [@JohnHart](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/JohnHart)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 9:33pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/so-whats-the-deal-with-snap-common-folders/843/3 "2018-08-11T21:33:17Z")

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Thanks for reply.

I did not intentionally get snappy. I simply downloaded Firefox from within the software ‘store’ or whatever it’s called.

How big a concern is sandboxing in Ubuntu? I’m not running any virus stuff. Should I be?

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**Author:** ![Coeur-Noir](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/coeur-noir/32/4515_2.png) [@Coeur-Noir](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/Coeur-Noir)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2018, 12:43am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/so-whats-the-deal-with-snap-common-folders/843/4 "2018-08-12T00:43:51Z")

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> [@JohnHart](#):
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> How big a concern is sandboxing in Ubuntu ?

Errr… good question… I can’t see the need, but it’s just my - maybe - misinformed point of view.

> [@JohnHart](#):
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> I simply downloaded Firefox from within the software ‘store’

All these ( ubuntu derived ) stores show snap package before - or instead of - regular apt packages, and that’s a pity.

Did you try any of the commands in the previous post ?

Or you may prefer removing the Firefox snap package, and installing Firefox apt package from official repositories of your distribution…

To remove :  
`snap remove firefox`

To install :  
`sudo apt install firefox`

To browse through packages available from official repositories, you can use _synaptic_. It’s less « pretty » than a software-store but only deals with robust apt packages management ( no snap, no flatpak, no AppImage there ).

Don’t get me wrong : snap, flatpak and AppImage are nice things. But nowadays not so easy to manage ( sandboxing might not be comfortable, translations may be missing, config’ files moved, need more space on disk, slower to launch… ) Unless your desired app’ only exists in such of these package, I recommend to stick to _good old_ apt packages.

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**Author:** ![JohnHart](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/johnhart/32/511_2.png) [@JohnHart](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/JohnHart)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 10:44pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/so-whats-the-deal-with-snap-common-folders/843/5 "2018-08-17T22:44:56Z")

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So I de- SNAP’D WITH SUDO APP. Nice to have my folder structure back

🕶

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**Author:** ![Hafenzoll](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/hafenzoll/32/4725_2.png) [@Hafenzoll](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/Hafenzoll)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 11:31pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/so-whats-the-deal-with-snap-common-folders/843/6 "2018-08-17T23:31:23Z")

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I’ve never used snap and I’ll never ever use snap for the future.  
If I need anything I do it over the terminal Tilix:Standard.