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[Antonio Lopez <584701@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

El Sábado 07 Mayo 2011, escribió:
> The difference is that recordings are created by mythtv, one would
> expect it to be able to delete the recordings. Video files are placed
> there by something else. If the delete option in the menu in mythvideo
> didn't exist, would you even expect to be able to delete videos?

But the thing is that it does exist. And I expect to be allowed to use it 
properly without any "obscure" tweaking. After all that is the purpose of a 
distro like Mythbuntu: easying the use of a complex system like MythTV. 
Mythbuntu is not a nuclear-plant-aimed distro but a PVR one. Of course 
security is a must but IMHO it should not get in the user's way.

I would agree with you if the Videos folder were user-created but it is a 
default in Mythbuntu, and specifically created by the Mythbuntu team to hold 
videos to be watched within MythTV! So I don't think to be far from most of 
the other users when I expect the system to behave consistently out-of-the-
box.

> 
> I see two possible resolutions. One could create a utility to adjust the
> permissions when moving the file to the proper directory. As others have
> pointed out though, a cron job works and seems to be of an out of the
> way solution. I'd accept a way of doing it via cron job, but it's not
> something that i'd put in by default. The script that runs via cron
> would need to
> 
> A) Be activatable via MCC
> B) Check mythvideo storage groups
> C) Set permissions to 644

I set a cron job as a walkaround but for sure it is not the optimal solution. 
What about just asking the user (via a MCC option) whether permanently setting 
permissions to 664 or not? Of course, warning about potential security issues 
(which I don't think shall be too frightening anyway ;-) ).

Regards,
Antonio

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/584701

Title:
  Cannot delete videos from MythTV

Status in Mythbuntu, Ubuntu derivative focused upon MythTV:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Whenever I copy a video file using Thunar into MythTV's videos folder,
  the default permissions eventually won't let me delete that file from
  MythTV Media -> Videos. The original permissions are:

  <desktop_user>:mythtv rw-r--r--

  and (IMHO) they should be defaulted to:

  <desktop_user>:mythtv rw-rw-r--

  Regards