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zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6464 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

plinej
- Do you use the latest gtkdialog package: 0.7.20?
- Does it happen both from browser and search?
- Are the links in temporary dir made?
- Did you exit previous Pburn with 'quit-button' or from jwm ('X'-button)?

melvix · Joined: 14 Jul 2007 Posts: 96 Location: Vilnius, Lithuania

Thanks for nice program. I am using Pburn_0.1 with PuppyRus, and we plannig to translate this program in russian.

plinej · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1554

Yeah, I'm using gtkdialog 0.7.20 (in puppy 4 alpha 2). I'm not sure what happened but I just re-installed 0.2 and it's working just fine. Thanks for the program.

Could you also add the size of directories just like you did with the files, and maybe convert the size from kb's to mb's?

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6464 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6464 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Version 0.3 is uploaded. See main post

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6464 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Version 0.4 is uploaded. See main post.

melvix · Joined: 14 Jul 2007 Posts: 96 Location: Vilnius, Lithuania

It's work ( I has problem with 0.2)

Dingo · Posted: Tue 18 Dec 2007, 07:44 Post subject:

I have installed latest version of pburn (0.4) on Puppy 3.0.1. but... adding a file is not possible (in right pan nothing is showed) adding folders is possible, but these folders looks empties! in other words, i can add only folders but not files inside or single files outside

very strange behaviour...

Henry · Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 865 Location: Oregon USA

I observed several times the same thing as Dingo with pburn .4 in Nop 3.01. Sorry I can't describe the sequence exactly, but when it happens it's hard toget it working again, maybe a couple of reboots.

Also, I don't quite understand about the temporary storage for CD burning, where the storage is, and how to increase it.

Having a good multi-purpose burning program is extremely attractive, and I appreciate the tireless work of Zigbert (and Nathan before), but these "simple" programs often baffle me. Barry's single function iso burner is an infallible pleasure to use, but I tend to go to windows to burn with the excellent DeepBurner to avoid surprises in routine data burning. Pburn's interface is elegant, as is Deepburner's, in which one simply drags files onto it.

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6464 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Just a guess: Do you have tmp storage on a vfat partition. Trying to make a symbolic link on a vfat filesystem give me the error: Operation not permitted. Pburn uses the command 'cp -srpf file /tmp_dir'. How can I pass this?

Sigmund

Henry · Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 865 Location: Oregon USA

Zigbert,

I looked at this again and here is what I see. First, the wording is confusing. "Add selection [mouse right]" might mean "right click" or drag to right" to someone, neither of which works, and may result in the message "Busy, please wait," or eventually (not sure of the sequence) to the problem described.

Look at how clear and simple the Puppy Package Manager is for this operation - just two words with right/left arrows. Why could we not be consistent with that? Also, I guess we don't need "Add all."

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6464 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Version 0.5 is uploaded. See main post.

Henry and Dingo. Please test this one, and give feedback. We must try to track this bug. I still wonder. Do your Pburn interfere with any fat/msdos filesystems.

Dingo · Posted: Wed 19 Dec 2007, 13:12 Post subject:

first of all, thanks for your efforts. I have upgraded (uninstalling previous version and deleting .pburnrc in /root/) to pburn 0.5, but the problem (the same) stills! I cannot add any file. Only directories and these, are addes, yes, but empties, without the files inside

I have also done an interesting discovery: if the temporary burning directory is setted on a vfat partition (my hard disk formatted in FAT32) I cannot add single files or directories with files inside

but leaving settings for temporary burning directory by default (/tmp/ on puppy filesystem) it works!

Yes, it works, but a lot of space is required. assuming I want burn a 700 Mb in one ot two times, I must have the same free space on puppy (frugal installation)

Since actually my pup_save file has 416 MB of size (frugal installation), is not convenient to use pburn for frugal install users

adding simlink from vfat partition to directory on pup_save file neither works

I think your program is very useful for all litte sized frugal install if it's any way to solve this problem

Henry · Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 865 Location: Oregon USA

v.5 is different in that the selection panel works and the right click selection is nice.

I normally use a 512M config file, no reason to use larger (just increases the backup size), but I changed it to 1024 to test pburn.

It cannot burn a CD or a DVD. It starts to but always stops with the message: "Not enough space in temporary storage." After that the file selection does not work right until I restart pburn.

Mine is a very clean Nop 3.01 live cd with hdd config file system. Lots of space on the (fat32) hard drive. Xfce and everything else works perfectly!

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6464 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

* Pburn 0.5 gives you the option to burn on-the-fly. This means to burn without using any temporary storage.
* Pointing temporary storage to a vfat filesystem will not work. I will either fix this or make an errorcheck.
* It would be nice to see if Henrys error is a because of Nop 301 or something else. If you would try Barrys latest Puppy 4.00 alpha3, Pburn is builtin.

Thanks for you bug-tracking effort
Sigmund