I am trying to use Gprenamer on Ubuntu 12.10 64bit. I want to rename some folders on an external harddrive but gprenamer semms not to be able to open /media/<user>/</user>
So I cant reach the folders I want to rename.
Greetings
Hi
Great program. I have used it successfully for years on a 64bit debian Sid.
But I'm having the same issue as Chrischi with a 64 bit Mint/Nadia laptop.
I suspect the reason is that /home is encrypted on the laptop.
Nothing in /media is browsable in GPRename.
Workaround: create a simlink to /media/$USER/"your_media" in your home folder. GPRename can access files from there.
JBg
Last edit: joebug 2013-04-04
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I'm the friggin admin of gprename and yet sometimes I never receive new bug report, sigh...
As for the problem, I'm not sure it relates to GPRename. Try accessing it in console, type it ls /media//
it probably will not work because 2 slashes one after the other is not a valid path. I have Linux Mint 64 bit and I can use GPrename just fine on my external hard drives or USB key or smartphone and so on.
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Hi Zurd, Hi Chrisci.
I hinted it could be related to an encrypted /home partition.
Is this the case with your systems?
I can easily access /media/$USER/my_usb_drive via the console - that's how I created a simlink and found the workaround.
Thanks,
JBg
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Thanks for the reply.
My Home is not enrypted ( "mount | grep ecryptfs" gives nothing). the 2 / was a mistake in my post ;)
Starting gprename in a terminal gives also no response.
greetings!
Last edit: Chrischi 2013-04-05
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SOLVED - Wrong permissions on /media/username
This seems to be the reason on my brand new Mint/Nadia.
I was trying to make a "workaround" folder :
~$ ln -s /media/username/ ~/media
GPRename could not access this folder :)
So I did a :
~$ sudo chown username:group ./media/
GPRename can now not only access ~/media/ but also /media/username/
I suppose "/media/username" was setup with wrong permissions.
As I said, my Mint/Nadia is just a week old : I haven't much played around with it yet. So this is probablys still a default setup.
Thanks -
Reading messages here contributed to my trying to understand and thus ...
Keep up the great work
JBg
Last edit: joebug 2013-04-06
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I have this issue as well. I'm not quite following what the solution was. It looks like they changed the owner and group ... but I can't tell what they changed it to? By default (Xubuntu Trusty), /media is root:root. Still, if it's read/write, shouldn't gprename be able to read/write?
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I figured there had to be a reason why /media/user is root:root but never search for it. Like they said it's probably better if you don't touch it, but it's a solution.
It makes sense in that thread that it should work anyway because /media/hobo/6DEB-EF3F is rwx for your user hobo. I do hope you are using the user hobo else it's normal why it's not working.
What does it say when you do gprename /media/hobo/6DEB-EF3F ? No one posted the actual response. Is it encrypted?
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What does it say when you do gprename /media/hobo/6DEB-EF3F ? No one posted the actual response. Is it encrypted?
I think because people are using the gui directly. It simply lets you navigate to /media and only shows the floppy directories in the navigation pane. In the Directories tab, it will show the user directory.
If you run gprename /media/hobo/6DEB-EF3F from terminal, the gui pops up then disappears, and you do get an error:
Status: closed-fixed Group: v1.0_(example) Created: Sun Mar 31, 2013 07:03 AM UTC by Chrischi Last Updated: Thu May 19, 2016 10:00 PM UTC Owner: nobody
Hi everybody!
I am trying to use Gprenamer on Ubuntu 12.10 64bit. I want to rename some
folders on an external harddrive but gprenamer semms not to be able to open
/media/<user>/</user>
So I cant reach the folders I want to rename.
Greetings
Hi
Great program. I have used it successfully for years on a 64bit debian Sid.
But I'm having the same issue as Chrischi with a 64 bit Mint/Nadia laptop.
I suspect the reason is that /home is encrypted on the laptop.
Nothing in /media is browsable in GPRename.
Workaround: create a simlink to /media/$USER/"your_media" in your home folder. GPRename can access files from there.
JBg
Last edit: joebug 2013-04-04
I'm the friggin admin of gprename and yet sometimes I never receive new bug report, sigh...
As for the problem, I'm not sure it relates to GPRename. Try accessing it in console, type it ls /media//
it probably will not work because 2 slashes one after the other is not a valid path. I have Linux Mint 64 bit and I can use GPrename just fine on my external hard drives or USB key or smartphone and so on.
Hi Zurd, Hi Chrisci.
I hinted it could be related to an encrypted /home partition.
Is this the case with your systems?
I can easily access /media/$USER/my_usb_drive via the console - that's how I created a simlink and found the workaround.
Thanks,
JBg
Hi again!
Thanks for the reply.
My Home is not enrypted ( "mount | grep ecryptfs" gives nothing). the 2 / was a mistake in my post ;)
Starting gprename in a terminal gives also no response.
greetings!
Last edit: Chrischi 2013-04-05
Try in a terminal ls /media/
what does it give? It's possible that /media is protected but that you have access to /media/your_username
SOLVED - Wrong permissions on /media/username
This seems to be the reason on my brand new Mint/Nadia.
I was trying to make a "workaround" folder :
~$ ln -s /media/username/ ~/media
GPRename could not access this folder :)
So I did a :
~$ sudo chown username:group ./media/
GPRename can now not only access ~/media/ but also /media/username/
I suppose "/media/username" was setup with wrong permissions.
As I said, my Mint/Nadia is just a week old : I haven't much played around with it yet. So this is probablys still a default setup.
Thanks -
Reading messages here contributed to my trying to understand and thus ...
Keep up the great work
JBg
Last edit: joebug 2013-04-06
Glad you sorted the issue, cheers
I have this issue as well. I'm not quite following what the solution was. It looks like they changed the owner and group ... but I can't tell what they changed it to? By default (Xubuntu Trusty), /media is root:root. Still, if it's read/write, shouldn't gprename be able to read/write?
what does these 2 commands do (replace YOUR_USER with the name of your user):
ls -lh /media
ls -lh /media/YOUR_USER
Thank you for helping. Here's the output:
Opening gprename with gksu works fine, but I'd rather not do that for various reasons.
Last edit: undrline 2016-05-18
drwxr-x---+ 3 root root 4.0K May 18 19:07 hobo
Here's the problem. Only root can write to it. Should be the same permissions as floppy
do:
sudo chmod 777 /media/hobo
(it will ask for your root password on the screen)
Then you'll be able to use gprename!
But it's the default for multiple reasons:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/392154/why-are-the-default-permissions-for-media-username-rootroot
Last edit: undrline 2016-05-19
I figured there had to be a reason why /media/user is root:root but never search for it. Like they said it's probably better if you don't touch it, but it's a solution.
It makes sense in that thread that it should work anyway because /media/hobo/6DEB-EF3F is rwx for your user hobo. I do hope you are using the user hobo else it's normal why it's not working.
What does it say when you do gprename /media/hobo/6DEB-EF3F ? No one posted the actual response. Is it encrypted?
I think because people are using the gui directly. It simply lets you navigate to /media and only shows the floppy directories in the navigation pane. In the Directories tab, it will show the user directory.
If you run gprename /media/hobo/6DEB-EF3F from terminal, the gui pops up then disappears, and you do get an error:
Yes. I am :)
Last edit: undrline 2016-05-23
Problem fixed in the latest release which is 20160905!
Thanks for the update!
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 6:28 PM, Zurd zurd@users.sf.net wrote:
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