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tomer

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"permissions on the amule temp directory too strict" message
« on: July 19, 2006, 05:59:45 PM »
heya

I've installed Amule and configured it to use my Emule temp and incoming directories. now I get this error message after restarting it:
"permissions on the amule temp directory too strict!
 Amule cannot proceed. to fix this, you must set read/write/exec permission for the folder ..(my temp emule folder)"

I've checked the permission tab for both folders which seem normal. I've unticked the "Read only" attribute just in case and noticed it re-ticked itself...could that be the problem?
I run 2 versions of Emule (not simultaneously) using those same 2 directories with no problem.
I run Windows 2000 SP4 .

any ideas?
thanks
« Last Edit: July 19, 2006, 06:01:28 PM by tomer »
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Re: "permissions on the amule temp directory too strict" message
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2006, 06:07:20 PM »
is that partition NTFS?
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Re: "permissions on the amule temp directory too strict" message
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2006, 06:44:48 PM »
yep, NTFS
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Re: "permissions on the amule temp directory too strict" message
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2006, 08:08:04 PM »
You can't write on NTFS from linux.
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Re: "permissions on the amule temp directory too strict" message
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2006, 08:30:43 PM »
Im running Windows 2000, not Linux..
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Re: "permissions on the amule temp directory too strict" message
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2006, 01:48:07 AM »
My fault.
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« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2007, 01:40:49 PM »
I made the mistake of selecting an incoming folder on a NTFS partition (/media/hda5/ (name of incoming folder) ) because I use a dual boot system (WinXP and Xubuntu 6.10) and I wanted to use the same incoming folder both for eMule (Winxp) and aMule (Xubuntu).
I get the same error message
"Permissions on the aMule incoming directory too strict! aMule cannot proceed. To fix this, you must set read/write/exec permissions for the folder"
I tried to remove aMule through both Synaptic Packet Manager and the Add/Remove tool and then reinstalled it, but it seems it keeps the incoming folder setting despite the uninstall.
Is there a way to edit that parameter by using the command line? I can't start the graphic mode because of that error message.
Further ideas?
Thanks in advance :)
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« Reply #7 on: April 17, 2007, 02:19:44 PM »
Use ntfs-3g to allow read/write access to your ntfs-partition from Linux.

To change the incoming folder, open the file ~/.aMule/amule.conf and change the line "IncomingDir=/media/hda5/".
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« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2007, 03:30:10 PM »
I chose the "easy" solution and changed the IncomingDir parameter (I didn't notice aMule is in a hidden folder, thank you wuischke !! ).

But I also got the ntfs-3g driver, through Synaptic Packet Manager. Before getting it, I could read (and not write) my Windows (ntfs) partitions from Linux. Even with this driver, I can't be granted write access on ntfs partitions. Nothing has changed, in practice.

If this isn't off topic, will you expose any ideas about that? :)
Thanks in advance.
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« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2007, 04:00:34 PM »
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/dev/sda1 /mnt/ntfs ntfs-3g defaults,rw,umask=0000 0 0That's a possible line in /etc/fstab to allow mounting with read/write access.
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