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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Bruce Hill wrote:
> 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

Well, one reason I use gtkam is that I can rename the pics as it
transfers them over.  I date code mine and sometimes add other hints to
the name.  If I just copy them over from the card reader, it uses the
same name as the camera uses and that doesn't let me keep track as I
like too. 

I may see if digikam will import from the card reader thingy tho.  That
*may* work.  Still prefer to plug in my camera tho. 

Thanks.

Dale

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