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Re: iMovie Capture Issue with Network Homes



> Hello,
>
> I've seen this issue in the lists but could not find where it was
> addressed (if at all). I will restate the problem to see if there might
> be a solution out there or if someone could point me to the solution:
>
> Xserve 10.5.8 using network homes with iMovie
> Services: AFP, SMB
> Client: OS X 10.5.8 with iLife 09
>
>
> When a standard user tries to import video into iMovie they get an error
> message stating
> "Can't Create Event"
> "The import was cancelled. You may not have permission
> to write to/iMovie Events.localized."
>
> This does not occur with a local account so it is isolated to
> permissions on the server. However an admin user will not receive this
> issue when importing. I have checked the user's permission to their home
> folder and everything checks out. Even did a repair permissions on the
> server and client. But I could not find /iMovie Events.localized on the
> server; it's as if it was never created despite there being a project
> folder present.
>
> Any insight would be appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Nima Vafi
> IT Management
>
You have to create the folder on each individual client machine at the root
level of the hard drive and give everyone r/w access to it.
The following commands should do the trick

mkdir /iMovie\ Events.localized
chown root:admin /iMovie\ Events.localized
chmod 1777 /iMovie\ Events.localized

All users will be able to write and edit the contents of the folder but not
delete the folder itself. We're not overly concerned with the security of
the contents of this folder (if need be users are reminded to move their
info someplace else after its imported) so we don't normally take any
precautions beyond this. In fact the contents of this folder are regularly
purged, via a login/logout hook if need be.

Using ARD's send unix feature these commands can be easily sent to all your
machines at once.

Tom

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