Storage location for other drives seems to not work correctly in the GUI

Bug #1584396 reported by Aaron Brown
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Déjà Dup
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Bug Description

I tried setting up deja-dub using the Backups GUI. When I selected my external drive in Storage Locations and typed in the desired folder on the drive, I kept getting errors that it didn't have permissions.

It wasn't until I thought to type in the path as /media/<username>/<drive>/<desiredFolder> that it worked. It appears that the path box was refering to /(root)/<desiredFolder> instead of /<externalDrive>/<desiredFolder> which again was selected in the Storage Location drop-down above it. Hopefully that make sense.

I'm sure this isn't a huge deal, but as a new-to-Ubuntu user it was very confusing until I happened to puzzle it out. It's working fine for me now, but other users might run into this.

1. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
2. deja-dup 34.2-0ubuntu1
   duplicity 0.7.06-2ubuntu2
3. attached deja-dup.gsettings

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Aaron Brown (aaron-brown310) wrote :
description: updated
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Michael Terry (mterry) wrote :

This should be better in 35.4, I hope. If you still get errors, please re-open.

Changed in deja-dup:
status: New → Fix Released
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