[mythtv-users] Permissions on recordings

[Martin Moores]

On 27 December 2012 04:35, Paul Stillwell <bigboi at wackywombats.com> wrote:

> I recently copied a bunch of recordings from one hard drive to the other.
> I used rsync to copy them. I just noticed that the files are owned by user
> '500', group '500'. That doesn't seem right. I also noticed that new
> recordings are owned by 'root' and group 'root'. Is that correct? I would
> have assumed that they were owned by 'mythtv', group 'mythtv'.
>
> Paul
>
> They need to be owned by mythtv user and group, otherwise stuff cannot be
auto expired etc.

Just run "chown mythtv:mythtv *" in your recordings directory, I had to do
something similar recently.

Cheers

Martin
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