[ale] gPodder NOT Writing to Other Partition

[Marc Ferguson]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2008/12/17 Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
>
> Since that is a non-standard location/point-point, did you leave SELinux
>> on?
>>
>> You might want to change the mount point to be inside you home area or use
>> FUSE to mount it.
>>
>> 2008/12/17 Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm running Fedora 10 x86_64 and gPodder 0.13.0.  I have all my
>>> music/podcasts on a separate partition.  I go into the preferences for
>>> gPodder and change the "Download Folder" to my /media/DATA/Music/Podcats
>>> folder and I get an error.
>>>
>>> So; it looks like I'm having some write issues with that folder.  Can I
>>> simply modify the /etc/fstab to have the owner be my username (marc) and not
>>> root?  I tried a:
>>>
>>> *chown -Rv marc /media/DATA*
>>>
>>> And that took a while, but it didn't change the ownership!  Thanks.
>>>
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>>>
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>>
>>
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>> James P. Kinney III
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> Hi James,
>
> What the heck is FUSE?  If it counts for anything I do have a symbolic link
> in my home directory (/home/marc/Music/) that points to my "Music" folder on
> my separate drive (/media/DATA/Music).  Does that make a difference?  And
> about SELinux... I believe it's on, but I didn't have this issue with the
> last release of Fedora.  Is it a new policy with SELinux that's causing this
> issue?  It seems to do more harm than good, but then again, I don't know too
> much about it. Thanks for your reply.
>
> --
> Marc F.
>
> "..Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come.."
> -Rev1:4
> "When life gives me lemons... I make Linuxaide!" -Marc F.
>

Hi,

I found the solution.  It seems that the GUI feature of changing your
directory isn't working, right now.  So; you can change it via the .conf
file. ~/.config/gpodder/gpodder.conf

http://wiki.gpodder.org/wiki/FAQs#How_do_I_change_the_download_directory_from_the_default_location_and_name_to_a_custom_named_directory_and_location.3F

-- 
Marc F.

"..Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come.."
-Rev1:4
"When life gives me lemons... I make Linuxaide!" -Marc F.
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