Thunar - Camera - Very annoying missing privileges !!!
Posted: Sun May 06, 2018 5:55 am
Hmmm, I wasn't sure if I should post this under Hardware or under Desktop, but here we go ...
I've been an avid hobby photographer for the past 30+ years. Ever since I switched to Linux, starting with Ubuntu back around 2008 or so, I never had a problem connecting my camera to the computer via USB cable, followed by being able to do whatever the heck I want, with my photos which are located on the camera. My very simple procedure for getting ready to work with my photos while they're still in the camera is generally always the same method:
1. Connect cable to camera.
2. Power on the camera.
3. Open file manager and locate camera.
4. Open folder with photos and CTRL + A followed by CTRL + X for removal of photos to specific location on disk.
For the past numerous years, regardless if I was using Ubuntu, Xubuntu, or Mint, this has never been a problem ... until now. With MX Linux & Thunar the photos can be located without a problem, but I can neither move nor delete the photos which I find incredibly irritating. Went on a long hike with our dog this morning, took some pretty phenomenal photos, and can't get them off the camera storage. I've tried opening the folder location on the camera as root in order to re-assign ownership privileges ... didn't work. Tried assigning ownership of camera folder to computer user via terminal, using both chown -R as well as trying to assign 777 chmod settings, both of which failed due to lacking privileges. If I try to find the camera/folder within system/media or system/mnt it doesn't show up there ... even though it's visible in Thunar. Starting off with Thunar opened as root, displays neither the camera nor the camera folders anywhere! This is quite annoying to say the least. How can I make sure that the camera is automatically recognized as a device that's owned by the user, i.e. not owned by root? I also tried pcmanfm, which yielded the same problems. So this is something that has to do specifically with MX ... methinks.
I've been an avid hobby photographer for the past 30+ years. Ever since I switched to Linux, starting with Ubuntu back around 2008 or so, I never had a problem connecting my camera to the computer via USB cable, followed by being able to do whatever the heck I want, with my photos which are located on the camera. My very simple procedure for getting ready to work with my photos while they're still in the camera is generally always the same method:
1. Connect cable to camera.
2. Power on the camera.
3. Open file manager and locate camera.
4. Open folder with photos and CTRL + A followed by CTRL + X for removal of photos to specific location on disk.
For the past numerous years, regardless if I was using Ubuntu, Xubuntu, or Mint, this has never been a problem ... until now. With MX Linux & Thunar the photos can be located without a problem, but I can neither move nor delete the photos which I find incredibly irritating. Went on a long hike with our dog this morning, took some pretty phenomenal photos, and can't get them off the camera storage. I've tried opening the folder location on the camera as root in order to re-assign ownership privileges ... didn't work. Tried assigning ownership of camera folder to computer user via terminal, using both chown -R as well as trying to assign 777 chmod settings, both of which failed due to lacking privileges. If I try to find the camera/folder within system/media or system/mnt it doesn't show up there ... even though it's visible in Thunar. Starting off with Thunar opened as root, displays neither the camera nor the camera folders anywhere! This is quite annoying to say the least. How can I make sure that the camera is automatically recognized as a device that's owned by the user, i.e. not owned by root? I also tried pcmanfm, which yielded the same problems. So this is something that has to do specifically with MX ... methinks.