Bev Nicolson wrote:
Me again. Investigating where the two bin files have /actually/ got to, I see one is my home folder (locked) and the other is in the file system but not in the bin folder or the usr bin folder. (I thought I'd been careful here) Is this likely to be part of the problem? I'm determined to get Brett's instructions thoroughly implemented (as it were) before I give up. TIA.
Yes that is absolutely likely to be the problem.
Try this (adapted from a previous post)
Open a terminal and type
sudo mkdir /usr/share/sane/snapscan
Then type this in a terminal NB it's all on one line.
sudo cp ~/SnapScan_1212U_2.bin /usr/share/sane/snapscan/
The above should copy one file. Then type
sudo chown root:root /usr/share/sane/snapscan/SnapScan_1212U_2.bin
That should make sure the file is owned by the root user.
Then start xsane and see what happens. Perhaps if you try starting it from a terminal by typing xsane, you'll see any error messages that come up.
Hope this helps.
Regards
Steve