On Saturday 02 Feb 2013 07:50:45 Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > 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.
Is there a config file you can have a look at and see if it is hard coded in there as the default saving path? > 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 > > [ebuild R ~] media-gfx/gtkam-0.2.0 USE="debug nls -gimp -gnome" > > This is likely not Gtkam itself but some helper program. Not sure of helper programs involved, but Gtkam is just the GUI front for media-gfx/gphoto2. > What could > cause this? Anyone else run into this? > > While I'm at it, I have tried other programs too. DigiKam crashes when I > try to connect to my Camera to download. It can't even think about > getting pics. > > Thoughts? Could this be a hardware fault with your camera; the USB cable; it's powersupply? -- Regards, Mick
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