Re: Open source software for moving media files off portable storage
Ray Rashif <[email protected]>
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On 23 February 2010 16:51, Jett Tayer <[email protected]> wrote: > Not sure if i got your question right but if you're using Gnome, f-spot > should be there to automagically sync to your local (for photos of > course) > > On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 23:08 -0800, Trent Payne wrote: >> Thanks for your reply Rajaram, >> >> I don't have any issue accessing the files on my camera; in every case I am able to mount them as vfat file systems. >> >> My issue is how to automatically handle moving them from the mobile file system to the local file system. >> >> Cheers... He just wants something to auto-copy stuff upon hotplugging of the device, regardless of the type of media content, to a predefined directory. In short, he's looking for a custom script or a post-mount action from a DE or WM utility. As such, Trent, you might be happy to know that DEs are programmed to offer this function out-of-the-box. If not, you have udev rules at your disposal: http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html I don't know about GNOME, but in KDE, I click on Device Notifier Settings, and I can assign a command to run depending on a matching rule. That's it, presto :) Else, every device has a unique identifier, if not a name. With that, you should be able to cough up something like this (where customscript is the script which would do all the copying with find -type -exec, and $sysfsattribute the serial of the device): ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{serial}=="$sysfsattribute", RUN+="$customscript" To find $sysfsattribute for the serial: udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/sdb) | grep product -A1 Replace /dev/sdb with where your removable device would be (you don't even need to have it mounted to run the above command). You can write the rule to a file /etc/udev.d/10-local.rules and hopefully this should prove to be a solution. As I only know this from memory, you might have to use plural forms a la SUBSYSTEMS and ATTRS, or replace SUBSYSTEM with BUS, but whatever it is you have to look at this method if the DE fails. Good luck :) -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD _______________________________________________ LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected]