Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

[Walter Dnes]

> I use Gtkam to get pics from my Canon camera.  I already put up with the
> fact that it crashes a LOT.  It really gets on my nerves but sort of
> getting used to that.  Now I have a new issue.  When I tell it to save a
> picture to say /home/dale/Desktop/Documents/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ it
> always saves them to /home/dale.  It does this regardless of what I have
> asked it to save them too.  This used to work fine when I had this sort
> of thing mounted on a directory called /data.  It would go something
> like this:  /data/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/  That would work fine.  When I
> got my shiney new 3Tb drive, I moved all that over to my home directory
> and ever since then, Gtkam saves to the wrong place.
>
> I have changed the permissions for /home/dale and EVERYTHING under it
> but still get the same thing.  I'm 99% sure it is not a permissions
> issue.  This is what permissions look like:
>
> drwxrwxr-x 27 dale users     4096 Dec  9  2009 2009
> drwxrwxr-x 37 dale users     4096 Nov 16  2011 2010
> drwxrwxr-x 31 dale users     4096 Dec 30  2011 2011
> drwxrwxr-x 20 dale users     4096 Nov 12 01:20 2012
> drwxrwxr-x  4 dale users     4096 Jan 30 03:00 2013

  Grasping at straws here; from /home/dale try...

chmod 777 Desktop

...and then try saving an image to Desktop.  BTW, do you have pam or acl
in use?

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications