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