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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:29:19
Message-Id: 510FFDEF.9020003@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again. by Walter Dnes
1 Walter Dnes wrote:
2 >> I use Gtkam to get pics from my Canon camera. I already put up with the
3 >> fact that it crashes a LOT. It really gets on my nerves but sort of
4 >> getting used to that. Now I have a new issue. When I tell it to save a
5 >> picture to say /home/dale/Desktop/Documents/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ it
6 >> always saves them to /home/dale. It does this regardless of what I have
7 >> asked it to save them too. This used to work fine when I had this sort
8 >> of thing mounted on a directory called /data. It would go something
9 >> like this: /data/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ That would work fine. When I
10 >> got my shiney new 3Tb drive, I moved all that over to my home directory
11 >> and ever since then, Gtkam saves to the wrong place.
12 >>
13 >> I have changed the permissions for /home/dale and EVERYTHING under it
14 >> but still get the same thing. I'm 99% sure it is not a permissions
15 >> issue. This is what permissions look like:
16 >>
17 >> drwxrwxr-x 27 dale users 4096 Dec 9 2009 2009
18 >> drwxrwxr-x 37 dale users 4096 Nov 16 2011 2010
19 >> drwxrwxr-x 31 dale users 4096 Dec 30 2011 2011
20 >> drwxrwxr-x 20 dale users 4096 Nov 12 01:20 2012
21 >> drwxrwxr-x 4 dale users 4096 Jan 30 03:00 2013
22 > Grasping at straws here; from /home/dale try...
23 >
24 > chmod 777 Desktop
25 >
26 > ...and then try saving an image to Desktop. BTW, do you have pam or acl
27 > in use?
28 >
29
30 Well, I cleaned out the camera pics so I'll have to take some more pics
31 to test. After getting digikam to work by importing it through the card
32 reader, I got all the pics downloaded. Then I cleaned out my card.
33
34 Putting on the todo list. I'll reply when I get some results.
35
36 Dale
37
38 :-) :-)
39
40 --
41 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!