in setting up backend, error, cant write test file

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sdowney717
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in setting up backend, error, cant write test file

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I had read maybe permissions issue.
I tried to set recording dir to both a home folder and a mounted drive.
I set the mythtv user to belong to me, group scott.

scott@scott-MS-7596:~$ id -Gn mythtv
mythtv dialout cdrom audio video scott

scott@scott-MS-7596:~$ id -Gn scott
scott adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare mythtv
scott@scott-MS-7596:~$
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Re: in setting up backend, error, cant write test file

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I solved it by deleting some entries in the list for those 3 that I had setup to write into.
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Re: in setting up backend, error, cant write test file

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I like solved! The question would be the group write permission on the directory
in question. E.g. ls -ld /path/to/directory/in/question.

Also, after changing group membership, you (at least I) have to re-login for it to
take affect. All this assumes you were running mythtv-setup as yourself, not user
mythtv. id -Gn would tell you what groups you belong to.
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Re: in setting up backend, error, cant write test file

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I managed to have it set to my mounted other drive, not my home folder which is good since it has 1gb free space.

I had entries like /media/scott and it needed to be /media/scott/mythtv_recordings
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