Closed Grumium closed 4 years ago
Can you be a bit more detailed? Do you mean system locations (outside of /home/
Is this location writable at startup?
Sure. If I set the Location for received files
to any directory residing at or below /home/*user*/
these locations are valid even after system reboot. In contrary, whenever I choose a directory like /mnt/something
or /media/something_else
Warpinator throws the error "invalid save location"
after reboot, indicating that it is either missing permissions or cannot find the corresponding directory. However, I can manually select the directory again choosing "Other..." -> "+ Other Locations"
, which works until I reboot.
Okay, chmod a+rwx
solved it. Sorry!
I am wondering why Warpinator does not complain about missing permissions when I set the directory manually at first? Warpinator does not run as root.
That is weird - do you remember its permissions before you changed it? It'd be better if it worked with normal permissions - a+rwx scares me :)
Yes, 0755
rwx-rx-rx
is not working, 0777
rwx-rwx-rwx
works, even without a
. I can also take ownership of the directory as the local user to solve the issue.
Oh then all of this makes sense, if you didn't own the folder. I would personally go with owning the folder and back to 755 before opening it for anyone, though in practice this probably won't matter for you.
Regardless I think this can be closed. I may reword the error page to mention permissions/ownership more explicitly.
Platform
Linux Mint 20 Ulyana Warpinator 1.0.6+ulyana
Issue
Locations for received files above the user's home directory
~
are not recognized upon system startup. Warpinator set to start automatically shows"invalid save location"
.However, locations outside of
~
can be selected manually after startup and are valid throughout the active session.