Qbittorrent 'permission denied' when downloading onto external usb hdd

when i change the default save path of downloaded files to my external drive at /mnt/elements all the downloads will fail with the log printing “error: Permission denied”. the default save path of /mnt/dietpi_userdata/downloads works with no issues. i’m assuming that i’m missing some permissions for qbit to able to write onto the external drive, but have no idea how to fix this.

Can you share the path you are trying to use. And following would be interesting as well.

lsblk -o name,fstype,label,size,ro,type,mountpoint,partuuid,uuid