Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

[Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 01:50:45AM -0600, 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.  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.  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?
> 
> Dale

Being partial to CLI, and haven't experienced goofy GUI apps like that in the
past, my choice is to remove the card from the camera (or use USB cable
attached to the camera), plug the card into a card reader, and rsync the
photos to my desired directory.

Whereas GUI photo apps work good in the darkside, we're lacking in Gentoo.

For my Canon EOS 20D this script is great:

mingdao@workstation ~ $ cat scripts/transfer-photos.sh
#!/bin/bash
mount /Canon-EOS
rsync -av /Canon-EOS/dcim/ /photos/
umount /Canon-EOS


There is a directory /photos/, and the following in /etc/fstab:

LABEL=EOS_DIGITAL       /Canon-EOS       vfat        noauto,users,rw,gid=1000,dmask=0002,fmask=0113,shortname=lower  0 0

Works great here.

Bruce
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