[N900] How to change the picture main folder?
 

Hi, everywhere here at Maemo.org is the information, how to change the picture main folder. But I can not find it. My problem: Since some months, my pictures are not being saved to the "DCIM" folder. What do I have to do, that the pictures are being saved there?

Re: [N900] How to change the picture main folder?
 

use the second icon on the bottom left of the main camera window

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There I can only change between SD card and internal memory. But I can not choose the DCIM folder ...

Re: [N900] How to change the picture main folder?
 

Internal memory is obviously MyDocs/DCIM.
Do you need something different?

Tell us where the pictures are being saved to right now when you choose Internal Memory.

Re: [N900] How to change the picture main folder?
 

Internal is activated. But the pictures are being saved under MyDocs. I would like to save the pictures in the internal DCIM folder.

Re: [N900] How to change the picture main folder?
 

they are the same folder, heh.
DCIM is a directory under MyDocs. Or do you mean that the pictures go to MyDocs/ itself?

Re: [N900] How to change the picture main folder?
 

I know. But when I choose "internal", the pictures are not in the DCIM folder. They are under MyDocs.

Re: [N900] How to change the picture main folder?
 

~/.config/user-dirs.dirs

Re: [N900] How to change the picture main folder?
 

1. sudo gainroot (enter)
2. ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs (enter)?

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cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs (enter)

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/home/user # cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
cat: can't open '/home/user/.config/user-dirs.dirs': No such file or directory

Re: [N900] How to change the picture main folder?
 

Then you may create such file with following content (output from ~ $ cat .config/user-dirs.dirs):
--edit
Just seen, that you executed as root.
Under root's config there is no such file. Please try again to check as user.

Re: [N900] How to change the picture main folder?
 

I get the same message, when I am not root.

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Edit: Damn, just noticed the full path in your post which makes most of the below irrelevant but I've decided to leave it in case some noob follows your footsteps.

~ stands for home directory and is different if you are user or root.
For user, ~ is /home/user. To avoid confusion, try
The easiest way to get there is by using automatic expansion. Type cat, space, slash, h, then click Tab in the X Terminal tool bar (to expand h to home/), u, Tab again, dot, co, Tab, u, Tab. If that does not expand to /home/user/.config/user-dirs.dirs then you are in trouble. You can copy the text in the code block in peterleinchen's post to a file, name the file user-dirs.dirs and copy it to /home/user/.config, but I wonder if that file is missing what else is.

Re: [N900] How to change the picture main folder?
 

Then proceed and create that file (possibly a reboot is necessary, idk).

--edit
see also pichlos advice...

Re: [N900] How to change the picture main folder?
 

Many thanks to peterleinchen and pichlo!

I am a little bit confused, beause your advices did not work. Therefore I openend "Filebox" and made a screenshot from "/home/user/.config":

http://666kb.com/i/cdsy6747e7hdfntvv.png

On the picture you can see five files. These are the only files within the folder ".config". Am I right, that there is no file called "user-dirs.dirs". Do I have to create this file now? For example in "Leafpad" with this code from pererleinchen:

Re: [N900] How to change the picture main folder?
 

Yes!

10 chars or
;)

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Great! It is working now. I am something like a stupid user! But I managed it with your help.

Something has changed now! Till I did this, in the N900's file manager I could see on "MyDocs" a folder called "DCIM", but every picture was saved at "MyDocs". After doing this, I do not see the "DCIM" folder in the N900's file manager, but the pictures are beeing saved in the folder "Kamera", now. I think (and hope) this is right.

Thanks again!!

Re: [N900] How to change the picture main folder?
 

That is expected. The config file user-dirs.dirs masks the true directory names so that the stock file manager will call them something else. What exactly depends on your theme and language. For example for me, the DCIM folder is called Camera. .sounds is called Audio Clips etc.

I am a bit concerned that your ~/.config/ contains only five items. Mine contains 34 including hildon-desktop, osso-calculator and tracker. I wonder how customized your device must be to work without those.

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:eek:

Do not make me nervous :rolleyes:

On my picture, you can see only "files" directly laying within my ".config" folder. But there are more than 30 subfolders, as well. I hope, this is ok.

Otherwise: If a stupid user like me is playing with his N900 (following all the nice threads here :D), mystery things can happen.

:)

Re: [N900] How to change the picture main folder?
 

This is okay.
No need to be nervous :D