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[Antonio Lopez <584701@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I don't think setting the correct permissions for a file would be
> considered "obscure" tweaking.

Not setting the correct permissions manually (just a matter of right-clicking) 
but being able to make it automagically (e.g. via a cron job, which requires a  
little bif of Linux knowledge, specially for a user coming from Gweendows --
not me, btw-- ). I'm supposing (Myth)Ubuntu trends to turn into a rookie-
oriented distro, of course.
> 
> Please let me know what I can do to "permanently setting permissions
> to 664". It sounds like since you have the cron job as a "workaround"
> that you don't know how to do this either. Really though, if you know
> how to do this I may be interested in setting this as a default
> configuration.

I admit being a little lazy down here, but I think the story probably should 
go like this: After setting up the cron job, I found that setting umask in the 
user's .bashrc should default the permissions to 664, but this seemed not to 
work properly at a first try. I really did not investigate it further but 
nevertheless I can do it for you if you want.

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