Access permission for digital camera in KDE (dolphin)

Mistreated · 01-30-2013, 04:47 AM

I use Kubuntu on a laptop and connect Nikon D3100 to it. KDE grants access to the device via camera:/ path and I usually copy photos to my HDD with dolphin to work with them later.
The problem is that all files are copied with read-only permissions. How can I set the file permission mask for the camera:/?

Thanks in advance!

rnturn · 01-31-2013, 03:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mistreated

I use Kubuntu on a laptop and connect Nikon D3100 to it. KDE grants access to the device via camera:/ path and I usually copy photos to my HDD with dolphin to work with them later.
The problem is that all files are copied with read-only permissions. How can I set the file permission mask for the camera:/?

Thanks in advance!

Do you mean that the copied files do not have any "write" bits set? I get the same behavior if I copy the from from my camera through a USB connection; all files have "444" permissions. If I pull out the SD card, mount it, and copy the files I get "644" permissions on all the copied files. If you don't have a CF/SD/whatever card reader handy, you can easily fix the permissions on the copied files using:

Code:

chmod u+w,g+w *.JPG

or

Code:

chmod u+w,g+w *.JPG *.CR2

(depending on what sort of files I'm creating in the camera). If you don't need anyone else to be modifying the photos, you can omit the ",g+w" string from the commands.

Hope this helps...

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Rick

Mistreated · 02-01-2013, 03:55 AM

Thanks, for the reply rnturn!
Yes I have to set the write bits manually, but it's too annoying to do it every time.

I wonder if is there a way to make those permissions automatically set. Maybe somehow through udev rules.. but I think this camera:/ device is managed by KDE.

Any suggestions?