Both the dropbox and its contents are owned by the same user running 
rdimport. Permissions of the undeleted file are -rwxr--r--

I just typed rm /var/dropbox/* as the same user, and the file went away.


Rob

On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Geoff Barkman wrote:

> It might be easier to set up the dropbox in rdadmin .... tick the box
> saying "Delete source files on import". Sometimes rdimport may have
> problems deleting a file if it is owned by someone else. Eg Rivendell
> runs as user "bob" but the files get copied via a samba or nfs share
> as user "guest".
> You might have to change ownership of the directory (dropbox) to 666
> either by right clicking on the folder  in nautilus or using the
> command line
>
> Many Thanks
> Geoff
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Rob Landry <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I have rdimport running in dropbox mode under Rivendell 2.0.2. Theexact
>> command is:
>>
>> rdimport --drop-box SPORTS "/var/dropbox/*.mp3"
>>
>> The purpose of this drop box is for operators to be able to import
>> recorded high school football games (typically 2.5 hours long). They just
>> dropped one in this afternoon, and it imported successfully after about 15
>> minutes, but my understanding is the original file in the drop box is
>> supposed to be deleted afterwards. That hasn't happened.
>>
>> Do files uploaded to dropboxes get deleted after the import is complete?
>> or did I misunderstand the documentation?
>>
>>
>> Rob
>>
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