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Video player and library app designed for elementary OS
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Library scanning does not follow symlinks #195

Open jeremypw opened 4 years ago

jeremypw commented 4 years ago

I have searched open and closed issues for duplicates.

Describe the bug

If the library folder contains a symlink to another folder, that folder does not get scanned for videos.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Create a symlink to a folder containing videos and put it in the library folder (default ~/Videos)
  2. Start Videos and choose Browse Library.
  3. The library page does not show the videos in the symlinked folder

Expected behavior

The library page includes the videos in the symlinked folder

Platform Information

Hera daily

I'm using the latest version from git that I've manually compiled

jeremypw commented 4 years ago

It is not too difficult to include symlinked folders but there are some difficulties in handling when the links are deleted without having to reinitialise Videos. I am working on it.