Problem solved - it was a security problem running gthumb - not the target directory at all.
Cheers, Kevin. On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 15:01 +0800, Kevin Shackleton wrote: > Some investigation hasn't shown me how the Gnome camera photo download > mechanism works. The problem is I have a couple of logons. The second > logon does not seem to have their own gnome configuration, so accepting > the popup's offer to save camera files does nothing > and /var/log/messages shows errors like 'Resolved address > "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only > configuration source at position 0', which presumably is because it's > trying to save to another users' directories. > > I did discover that any user wanting access to a removable drive has to > be a member of the plugdev group. > > gconf-editor did not show me a path for photo saving, and the > configuration path mentioned in messages is a mess of little xml files > which I wasn't keen on searching and editing outside gconf. > > Any pointrs to a good howto? > > Thanks, > > Kevin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
