<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Jeremy Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeremy.dwain.jones@gmail.com" target="_blank">jeremy.dwain.jones@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Michael T. Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com" target="_blank">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On 05/29/2013 10:12 PM, Jeremy Jones wrote:<br>
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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".<br>
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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.<br>
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It's mythbackend that does the deleting when you use Storage Groups.<br>
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Mike<br><br></blockquote></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
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</blockquote></div><br><div>Solved! Now I feel like an idiot. I just did a 'scan for changes' and went back to the file and tried again and this time it worked. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm guessing that mythBackend 'knew' it didn't have permission based on the file permissions when the library was 'scanned' previously. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Does that sound at all right? Seems kind-of strange. I fought with this off and on for the past several days and I actually made the permission changes last night. I know I tried to delete a file again just a few minutes before I posted, so the only change in the setup I can think of is the, 'scan for changes' that I just did.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Sorry for the bother, thanks for the help.</div><div><br></div><div>Jeremy</div>