[mythtv-users] 'Failed to Delete File' from within Video Library

[Jeremy Jones]

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 05/29/2013 10:12 PM, Jeremy Jones wrote:
>
>> I recently started downloading a few video podcasts (Everything perfectly
>> legal).  The video file is placed in a folder in my video library so that I
>> can watch them from myth.  When I finish watching one, I would like to be
>> able to delete it.  When I tried by pressing 'd' I first get a prompt, "Are
>> you sure you sure you want to delete:..." Upon selecting 'OK' I get a
>> second message informing me, "Failed to delete file".
>>
>> I have checked the permissions and I don't see a problem.  I tried
>> changing the parent folder's owner to 'mythtv' as well as all the files.  I
>> can delete the file from within thunar using the same user that runs
>> mythfrontend.
>>
>
> It's mythbackend that does the deleting when you use Storage Groups.
>
> Mike
>
> Thanks.  I thought that may be the case, which is why I changed the owner
and group to mythtv.  That's the user that is running mythbackend.  I just
checked it with htop just to be sure. My local user that is running
mythfrontend is a member of the mythtv group, which is why I can delete the
file with thunar.

Is there a setting in mythbackend that could be preventing it, or are you
suggesting it is a user permission thing? I would do a, 'su mythtv' and
test the permissions, but I don't know that users password.

Jeremy
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