can not transfer any files

millrtyme12

I have been trying to transfer NES and SNES games to their respective rom folder. When I use the built in ftp program and press upload nothing happens. when I use an FTP program (filezilla) I get "response 553 could not create file" followed by error critical file transfer error. I have even tried copying and moving the files from a USB drive to the rom drive and I keep getting ".zip: Error opening file (insert file name here) Permission denied". I did a search and have spent a bunch of time looking through many of the forums and haven't found any answers. I don't have a lot of experience in terminal and when I try to change the permissions in the desktop it wont let me change anything. Im pretty much at a loss on how to get roms into their folder. I am running PiMAME ver 0.7.10 thanks in advance

bsb

Are you logging into the RPi as the user "pi" ??

Everything should be owned by "pi" and therefore you should not have permissions issues.

If you are NOT logging in as pi (default pw is "raspberry"), do that and report back.

If you ARE logging in as pi and having these problems, please do this and report back:

Type these commands:

cd
cd pimame
ls -l

You should see something like this:
pi@pimame ~/pimame/roms $ ls -la
total 56
drwxr-xr-x 14 pi pi 4096 Jun 13 21:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 pi pi 4096 Jun 29 19:15 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Jun 13 15:03 2600
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Jun 13 13:56 advmame
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Apr 18 23:59 gb
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Apr 18 23:59 gba
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Apr 19 00:03 genesis
lrwxrwxrwx 1 pi pi 7 Jun 13 21:41 mame4all -> advmame
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Jun 13 13:56 mame4all_old
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Apr 19 00:00 neogeo
drwxr-xr-x 3 pi pi 4096 Apr 17 18:39 nes
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Apr 17 18:39 pifba
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Apr 17 18:39 psx
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Apr 17 18:39 scummvm
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Apr 19 00:01 snes

Which shows "drwx......... 2 pi pi .........." which means 1. the entry is a directory "d....." and that 2. the permissions for the owner is read+write+execute ".rwx........." and that 3. it's owned by the user pi "................. pi pi ............."

Those attributes (the latter 2 actually, permission and ownership, regardless of whether it's a file or directory) should mean that the user pi has full control, and no permissions issues.

Good luck.

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