Brasero: can't choose a directory.

[William Mattison]

I'm using Fedora-23, last patched last Thursday, 6/23.

Last Friday, I was trying to back up some directory trees to DVD.  I 
launched Brasero, and chose "New Data Project".  The result should have 
been a list of the directories and files at the home or root level.  The 
file list area was blank.  When I try "Project" -> "Open", a populated 
file browser shows up.  I can navigate the file system successfully, but 
I can't find a way to select a directory for copying to the DVD.

This all worked in March in F-22, when I backed up before upgrading to 
F-23.  What am I doing wrong?  Or what have I not done that I need to do?

Thank-you in advance for your help.
Bill.

[Fred Smith]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 12:19:53PM -0600, William wrote:
> I'm using Fedora-23, last patched last Thursday, 6/23.
>
> Last Friday, I was trying to back up some directory trees to DVD.  I
> launched Brasero, and chose "New Data Project".  The result should
> have been a list of the directories and files at the home or root
> level.  The file list area was blank.  When I try "Project" ->
> "Open", a populated file browser shows up.  I can navigate the file
> system successfully, but I can't find a way to select a directory
> for copying to the DVD.

I don't use brasero much, but on the offchance that this specific thing
works like it does in k3b, have you tried opening a seprate file manager
(nautilus, whatever) and dragging directory names from it into brasero?
or copy/paste into brasero?

[Richard Shaw]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Fred Smith 
wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 12:19:53PM -0600, William wrote:
> > I'm using Fedora-23, last patched last Thursday, 6/23.
> >
> > Last Friday, I was trying to back up some directory trees to DVD.  I
> > launched Brasero, and chose "New Data Project".  The result should
> > have been a list of the directories and files at the home or root
> > level.  The file list area was blank.  When I try "Project" ->
> > "Open", a populated file browser shows up.  I can navigate the file
> > system successfully, but I can't find a way to select a directory
> > for copying to the DVD.

I could not reproduce that behavior but I was doing X11 Forwarding to my
Work Win7 box from my home f23 box.

Thanks,
Richard

[Rick Stevens]

On 06/27/2016 11:19 AM, William wrote:
> I'm using Fedora-23, last patched last Thursday, 6/23.
>
> Last Friday, I was trying to back up some directory trees to DVD.  I
> launched Brasero, and chose "New Data Project".  The result should have
> been a list of the directories and files at the home or root level.  The
> file list area was blank.  When I try "Project" -> "Open", a populated
> file browser shows up.  I can navigate the file system successfully, but
> I can't find a way to select a directory for copying to the DVD.
>
> This all worked in March in F-22, when I backed up before upgrading to
> F-23.  What am I doing wrong?  Or what have I not done that I need to do?

Uh, click on the "+" in the upper left corner, navigate the browser that
pops up, and double-click on the items you want in the new project.

Alternately, open the new data project, open a different file browser,
and drag and drop the directories you want into the project.

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