I cannot get permission to open my own scanned pics and OCR texts.

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If you run xsane with sudo i think the scanned images are owned by root.
Using sudo is like to run a command as root user, the root user is the power user of the Linux/Unix system.
You need to check and then change the permissions of the scanned images...

Please don't use xsane with sudo... please check you devices permissions and which group is you user member of

From a terminal please type

sudo adduser $(who am i | cut -d" " -f 1) scanner

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Then use xsane as usual login user.

Now please check the permissions of the scanned image files, open a terminal and type: ls -l command (LS -L)

then if them are owned by root simply type:

sudo chmod 666 scanned_image_name

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Obviously replace the "scanned_image_name" in the previous command with real name of the imagefile.

Hope this helps

Thanks, but it doesn't work. All it does is make all my previously available pictures unavailable. I was able to get those back with chmod 777 *, but I'm back where I started.

NGS
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> Subject: Re: [Question #58817]: I cannot get permission to open my own scanned pics and OCR texts.
> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:59:28 +0000
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> Your question #58817 on xsane in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xsane/+question/58817
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> marcobra proposed the following answer:
> If you run xsane with sudo i think the scanned images are owned by root.
> Using sudo is like to run a command as root user, the root user is the power user of the Linux/Unix system.
> You need to check and then change the permissions of the scanned images...
>
> Please don't use xsane with sudo... please check you devices permissions
> and which group is you user member of
>
> >From a terminal please type
>
> sudo adduser $(who am i | cut -d" " -f 1) scanner
>
> give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you
> type it, then press enter.
>
> Then use xsane as usual login user.
>
>
> Now please check the permissions of the scanned image files, open a terminal and type: ls -l command (LS -L)
>
> then if them are owned by root simply type:
>
> sudo chmod 666 scanned_image_name
>
> give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you
> type it, then press enter.
>
> Obviously replace the "scanned_image_name" in the previous command with
> real name of the imagefile.
>
> Hope this helps
>
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Please open a terminal and try to run xsane from no root user, don't use sudo, it simply type

xsane

Please report message and/or errors here ( please don't fill this page with a long error log )

Hi;

When I type "xsane", I get: "Failure to create. Permission denied."

Nigel
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Please open a terminal and type:

sudo rm -fr $HOME/.sane

and run xsane

Hope this helps