[mythtv-users] Help understand the interface of Myth Media & Video Gallery

[Anthony Rooney]

Hi

When I enter /media/Store/Recordings the interface saves it as
/media/Store/Recordings/ with the added forward slash???

When I try to exit Myth Backend I get the message the Path
/media/Store/Recordings/ does not exist do you want to go back and fix?

Now how do I fix this path when it is perfectly valid?  It is exactly as it
is seen in PLACES.  I have no browse interface so All I can do is enter a
string but no one can tell me how to do this.

I do not have a permission error as far as I know but perhaps that is
another problem waiting for me if I can ever enter a path entered into the
system that it can accept.

All I want to do is point to a location I can see in "places" and I cannot
get any assistance on what exactly I need to enter.  How frustrating can
this be?  The interface so  unusable that no one can definitively state how
to enter and 2nd location in the default path location.

Really I am at my wits end as I cannot access 80% of my disk to store
recording just because the User Interface is unusable.

Please help.

How could they design a product so unusable??


Kind Regards


Anthony

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Andre
Sent: Thursday, 27 January 2011 9:13 PM
To: Discussion about MythTV
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Help understand the interface of Myth Media &
Video Gallery


On 27 Jan 2011, at 10:30, Anthony Rooney wrote:
> 
> just to add another location to my default group and do you think the 
> wiki would give you just 1 example of the syntax I need to enter?
> 
> I have a second partition which appears in the file system as 
> "/media/Store/Recordings"
> 
> How do I add this location to the default storage group?  What is the 
> exact text string I have to add as I have read the instructions and 
> without an example I simply cannot get it to work?

Select Default storage group and type:

/media/Store/Recordings

There is an issue with myth recordings directories that might be tripping
you up, the directory should be owned by the mythtv user and myth wants some
slightly odd permissions.

If you get a cannot write to storage directory error (it says something like
that) then try the following commands, you should be able to copy & paste
them into a console but check the paths are right for your system first in
case your first storage directory is not in the usual place. You will be
asked for your password before the first command but probably not the
second.

sudo chown -R mythtv:mythtv /media/Store/Recordings

sudo chmod --reference=/var/lib/mythtv/recordings /media/Store/Recordings

It would be nice if myth offered to fix these permissions for you if they
are wrong but I don't know how to code that.

Hope this helps.

Andre
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