An application by Mike Walsh for moving files out of the .../Spot/Downloads folder when a web-browser is run as Spot. Download link is here, http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 71#1048371. Depending on which web-browser you use the files downloaded with it may not have file-permissions usable by applications running as Root. Further discussion of the need for it and usage begins on the third paragraph from the bottom here, http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 71#1048371
As installed OOTB, it will move files out of /home/spot/Download to /root/Downloads. You can edit /usr/local/bin/spot-to-root to change either the origination or the destination folder or both; for example, from /home/spot/Downloads to /root/spot/downloads if your spot folder is in /root.
The application will also change the permissions of files in .../spot/Uploads if your web-browser is unable to upload files having root permissions.
It has a "Menu entry (and select not to let it autostart), and when they're finished, they can now right-click on the tray icon to "Quit"... For those who may want it to run all the time, just set the tray icon to autostart with Puppy. It'll always be there when you want it." http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 71#1048371. Its Menu-listing is under the Filesystem Category.
Spot2Root Permission Changer
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Mike Walsh
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@ Mike/all:-
After a wee think about it, I've slightly modified the 'Spot2Root' .pets. Instead of using /home/spot, with a sym-link to /root/spot, I've reverted the whole thing back to just working with the original 'spot' in /root.
AFAIK, the only browser ever built for Puppy to make use of /home/spot (which had to be specially created for it) was my Google_Chrome package. And since I'm no longer building those, but rather the 'portable' version instead, it seems rather a pointless excercise insisting 'Spot2Root' make use of it...
Re-built packages have been re-uploaded to the Drive. It works as well as ever, just with the Puppy 'standard' /root/spot/Downloads & /root/spot/Uploads instead.
Mike.
After a wee think about it, I've slightly modified the 'Spot2Root' .pets. Instead of using /home/spot, with a sym-link to /root/spot, I've reverted the whole thing back to just working with the original 'spot' in /root.
AFAIK, the only browser ever built for Puppy to make use of /home/spot (which had to be specially created for it) was my Google_Chrome package. And since I'm no longer building those, but rather the 'portable' version instead, it seems rather a pointless excercise insisting 'Spot2Root' make use of it...
Re-built packages have been re-uploaded to the Drive. It works as well as ever, just with the Puppy 'standard' /root/spot/Downloads & /root/spot/Uploads instead.
Mike.
