Hello, I keep all my documents on a NAS in my home network so I’d like to do with the Gramps database (SQLite) as well. But different to the remarks on moving database location I have seen in manual and here it is not working. I can move the database from my local computer to a location on NAS, I c…

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Hello Nick, thanks for the link. I had already found it and tried the suggestions mentioned there, but at the end I stopped because version 1.00 of the SAMBA protocol isn’t supported anymore by the NAS due to security reasons. Best regards Jürgen

This looks promising: Fix the SQLite "attempt to write a readonly database" error If you’re encountering "General error - 8 attempt to write a readonly database" when working with SQLite, and confused because the write permission’s set on the file, here’s the solution. …

Hello, I have checked the permissions and think I have all necessary write permissions On the NAS there is a folder “familie” where I store all information [Syn_GrampsDir] In that folder I created a folder Gramps_Test to store a copy of the database currently in use [Syn_GrampsTest] And final…

The write permissions are disabled for group and others group. Write permissions are only enabled for owner. For directories (drwxr-xr-x) and files (-rwxr-xr-x) in your screen captures. The owner has full control (read, write, execute). The group has read and execute permissions. Others have rea…

Some users have had issues in the past; here is one that had a solution: (Gramps-users) What has the Berkeley Database got to do with Gramps? Keith Jacobs 29 June 2019 at 20:39 To: gramps-users@lists.sourceforge.net Success My very grateful thanks to Nick Hall who has not only helped me whilst I…

[image] prculley: file_mode=0777,user=username,pass=password,guest,uid=1000,gid=1000,dir_mode=0777,vers=1.0 //192.168.0.254/usb_storage /mnt/Samba Jürgen noted that SAMBA version 1.0 was not permitted by his NAS. He would need to compose a 2.0 version string instead. (Telling us which NAS wou…

Hello, the NAS comes from Synology (type RS819) and runs on DSM 7.2. If I try to change to SAMBA V1 there is a warning that this protocol is outdated and is not recommended. You can ignore that but I don’t know what the consequences will be. I tried to give all user write permission to the test f…

Moved from: Media Base Path (on *nix) on SMB fileshare Gramps 5.2.3 GNU/Linux Fedora 40 My media files are on my Synology NAS accessible via SMB. I’m trying to work out how to make GRAMPS understand this fact. When I go to GRAMPS preferences to set the media path the file chooser doesn’t offe…

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