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English => aMule Help => Topic started by: Greg on November 24, 2004, 01:12:07 PM
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hi (again),
I need your help again because some of my new incoming files can't be openned.
The message is 'no permission to open this file' (translate from french). That's mpg and jpg files format. I realy don't understand because some others jpg files downloaded with amule can be open ! Is there any protection on these ones?
Bonus question : Is there a program under linux which can open mpg files ?
Bye & Thanx
Greg
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Usually permission problems arise when different users use amule but the incoming directory is common. Could be for example when you run amule as root and then later as your usual login name. This creates different owners. If you are consistently running amule from 1 user, this should not happen. The remedy is to run "chmod 777 -R /path to your incoming directory" as root, which basically gives permission to everybody. I haven't played mpg files in linux but totem seems pretty versatile.
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Bonus question : Is there a program under linux which can open mpg files ?
mplayer - plays virtually everything
About permissions - check with ls -l those files you can't open. You will see where your problem is. Amule can assign permissions to incoming files - check in preferences if this is what you want.
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check also the user which runs amule, and the owner of the files. Should be the same (not sure, I have incoming and temp on a FAT32 partition). Also, do what madddeneye suggested, but instead of using 777, use 644. It's pretty safer. A good mpg player is xine, it works for me on Fedora core 2.
Regards.