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2008-03-22
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I also would prefer to see the video length before deciding to view it.
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2008-03-22
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Originally Posted by desiv
I am trying to remove the one video I saved to disk as I keep getting an error message saying there is no more space on the device. I am unable to remove the video directory as explained above because it says the directory is not empty. How do I remove the video that is in the directory. . . PLEASE BE SPECIFIC...I DON'T KNOW LINUX WELL.
No big deal.
It's still great to have this!!
Also, for now, the symlink works.
I just created a dir called videos in a tmp folder. Then I did:
cd /home/user/.canola/youtube
ln -s /media/mmc1/tmp/videos videos
(I think I did a "rmdir videos" first, to delete the original videos dir.)
Works great!!
desiv
thanks,
Neil
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2008-03-22
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Originally Posted by nspeer
Copied from another post!!! Try this as is
I am trying to remove the one video I saved to disk as I keep getting an error message saying there is no more space on the device. I am unable to remove the video directory as explained above because it says the directory is not empty. How do I remove the video that is in the directory. . . PLEASE BE SPECIFIC...I DON'T KNOW LINUX WELL.
thanks,
Neil
for those of you who want to try it (on risk and so on, and *remember* that you did this change, so you can revert it when canola has a folder chooser for this)
open an x-term shell: you are in your home direcory now.
cd .canola/youtube
create a new youtube-temp-directory, e.g. on /media/mmc2:
mkdir /media/mmc2/youtube-temp
now the "crucial part": this one deletes your normal canola temp-dir
rm -r videos
and now we create a symbolic link called "videos" which points to our newly created temp dir:
ln -s /media/mmc2/youtube-temp videos
(in caps this would be LN not 1N)
after this you should be able to do a
cd videos
echo 1 > 1
and if you open your filemanager and go to the folder in which the youtube temp-files should be stored (internal mem. card/youtube-temp)
you should see a very small file called "1" now.
Delete it, as we don't need it anymore and test your youtube videos...
To revert this change:
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open an x-term shell: you are in your home direcory now.
cd .canola/youtube
rm videos
mkdir videos
this will only delete the *link*, so your "new" youtube-temp directory is still there and can be deleted.
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2008-03-22
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Originally Posted by nspeer
Neil -- no problem.
I am trying to remove the one video I saved to disk as I keep getting an error message saying there is no more space on the device. I am unable to remove the video directory as explained above because it says the directory is not empty. How do I remove the video that is in the directory. . . PLEASE BE SPECIFIC...I DON'T KNOW LINUX WELL.
Let's say you want to make your youtube video directory on your external SD card (/media/mmc1):
mkdir /media/mmc1/youtube
this will create the directory. Now, we'll move the already collected files in your canola youtube directory there:
mv /home/user/.canola/youtube/videos/* /media/mmc1/youtube/
that'll put everything you've collected so far into the new directory. Now that the directory is empty, you can remove it:
rmdir /home/user/.canola/youtube/videos/
now, just create the link:
ln -s /media/mmc1/youtube/ /home/user/.canola/youtube/videos/
when you next start up canola, it'll find all the stuff you've previously saved there, in the new directory.
Last edited by briand; 2008-03-23 at 02:02. Reason: corrected typographical and transpositional errors.
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2008-03-22
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thank Briand
I had a problem.
First line of code worked. But when I type
mv /home/users/.canola/youtube/videos/* /media/mmc1/youtube/
the reply is mv: unable to rename /home/users/.canola/youtube/videos/* ' : No such file or directory
mv: unable to rename /home/users ' : No such file
what's up?
Neil
I had a problem.
First line of code worked. But when I type
mv /home/users/.canola/youtube/videos/* /media/mmc1/youtube/
the reply is mv: unable to rename /home/users/.canola/youtube/videos/* ' : No such file or directory
mv: unable to rename /home/users ' : No such file
what's up?
Neil
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2008-03-22
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nspeer,
Let's see what you've got in that directory. Type this:
ls /home/users/.canola/youtube/videos -al
(The -al will give you more information, and include possible hidden files/dirs)
It sounds like that directory might already be empty..
desiv
Let's see what you've got in that directory. Type this:
ls /home/users/.canola/youtube/videos -al
(The -al will give you more information, and include possible hidden files/dirs)
It sounds like that directory might already be empty..
desiv
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2008-03-22
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Try /home/user/... instead of /home/users/...
At least that's the home directory on os2008.
At least that's the home directory on os2008.
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2008-03-22
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Originally Posted by bayowar
I just tried the above suggestion.
Try /home/user/... instead of /home/users/...
At least that's the home directory on os2008.
Reply is mv: unable to rename /home/user/.canola/youtube/videos/*' :no such file or directory
However, I just used the filemanager and found that my Memory Card now indeed does have a folder named youtube and there are some files in it.
Now what?
Neil
Neil
Last edited by nspeer; 2008-03-22 at 18:29.
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2008-03-22
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Well,
Next, I'd ask you to do an "ls" on the original directory to see if it's empty...
Oh, wait, I did ask that. :-)
If it's already empty and those are the correct directory names (You'd find that out by doing an "ls" :-), you go to the next steps on the directions:
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rmdir /home/users/.canola/youtube/videos/
now, just create the link:
ln -s /home/users/.canola/youtube/videos/ /media/mmc1/youtube/
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desiv
p.s. Remember to be careful with rm, rmdir and mv. Those commands remove things, so you want to be sure you're removing the right things. Spaces, /'s, .'s, are all very important!!
Next, I'd ask you to do an "ls" on the original directory to see if it's empty...
Oh, wait, I did ask that. :-)
If it's already empty and those are the correct directory names (You'd find that out by doing an "ls" :-), you go to the next steps on the directions:
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rmdir /home/users/.canola/youtube/videos/
now, just create the link:
ln -s /home/users/.canola/youtube/videos/ /media/mmc1/youtube/
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desiv
p.s. Remember to be careful with rm, rmdir and mv. Those commands remove things, so you want to be sure you're removing the right things. Spaces, /'s, .'s, are all very important!!
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2008-03-22
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Originally Posted by briand
OK, I just typed ln -s /home/users/.canola/youtube/videos/ /media/mmc1/youtube/
Neil -- no problem.
Let's say you want to make your youtube video directory on your external SD card (/media/mmc1):
mkdir /media/mmc1/youtube
this will create the directory. Now, we'll move the already collected files in your canola youtube directory there:
mv /home/users/.canola/youtube/videos/* /media/mmc1/youtube/
that'll put everything you've collected so far into the new directory. Now that the directory is empty, you can remove it:
rmdir /home/users/.canola/youtube/videos/
now, just create the link:
ln -s /home/users/.canola/youtube/videos/ /media/mmc1/youtube/
when you next start up canola, it'll find all the stuff you've previously saved there, in the new directory.
the reply was ln: /media/mmc1/youtube/videos: operation not permitted
What's wrong?
thanks for your help,
Neil
