[mythtv-users] MythArchive 0.21: How to select files to burn to DVD

[Kevin Bailey]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 01:27:52AM -0400, David Kramer wrote:
> 
> I found out the problem.  I celebrated the install of 0.21 by buying an 
> additional 750GB drive and adding it to my spiffy new storage group.  I 
> had all the directories in that tree as owned by mythtv.mythtv, but 
> mytharchive needs its tree as writable by the user running the front end.
> 
> Since mytharchive couldn't create its temporary files, it didn't update 
> the amount of DVD space used/left, so there was no indication on the 
> screen that anything was changing as I added/deleted files  I would have 
> expected some kind of error message if it couldn't write files, but 
> there was none, not even in the log file.  Once I figured it out, I set 
> that dir as 777 and then everything worked.
> 
> Is that worth reporting as a bug?

Heck ya.