Custom Books Location path ending in Books not possible

[sebinum]

Describe the bug Changing the Books Location to a custom path which targets a *\Books or *\books location is not possible.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to Settings
2. Click on Important Settings
3. Under the Books Location select custom path
4. Open file explorer by clicking ...
5. Select path ending in \Books or \books
6. The path is updated but \Books or \books section removed

Expected behavior It should be possible to define a custom path for the Books Location that targets a Books / books folder

Screenshots

Platform

Windows 10 (see logs), Linux (Ubuntu/Linux Mint Xfce)]

Log Files

2024-04-02 08:02:59.624 +02:00 [INF] (at AppScaffolding.LibationScaffolding.logStartupState(LibationFileManager.Configuration)) 
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 {}2024-04-02 08:02:59.665 +02:00 [INF] (at AppScaffolding.LibationScaffolding.logStartupState(LibationFileManager.Configuration)) Begin. {"AppName":"Libation","Version":"11.1.0.1","ReleaseIdentifier":"WindowsAvalonia","OS":"Windows","InteropFunctionsType":"WindowsConfigApp.WinInterop","Mode":"Release","LogLevel_Verbose_Enabled":false,"LogLevel_Debug_Enabled":false,"LogLevel_Information_Enabled":true,"LogLevel_Warning_Enabled":true,"LogLevel_Error_Enabled":true,"LogLevel_Fatal_Enabled":true,"BetaOptIn":false,"UseCoverAsFolderIcon":false,"LibationFiles":"C:\\Users\\sebas\\Libation","BooksDirectory":"\\\\?\\C:\\Users\\sebas\\Libation\\Books","InProgress":"C:\\Users\\sebas\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\Libation","DownloadsInProgressDirectory":"\\\\?\\C:\\Users\\sebas\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\Libation\\DownloadsInProgress","DownloadsInProgressFiles":0,"DecryptInProgressDirectory":"\\\\?\\C:\\Users\\sebas\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\Libation\\DecryptInProgress","DecryptInProgressFiles":0}
 {}2024-04-02 08:02:59.811 +02:00 [ERR] (at LibationFileManager.InteropFactory.CurrentDomain_AssemblyResolve(System.Object, System.ResolveEventArgs)) Unable to load module Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.resources, Version=7.0.12.0, Culture=en-GB, PublicKeyToken=##ommited
 {}2024-04-02 08:02:59.819 +02:00 [ERR] (at LibationFileManager.InteropFactory.CurrentDomain_AssemblyResolve(System.Object, System.ResolveEventArgs)) Unable to load module Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.resources, Version=7.0.12.0, Culture=en, PublicKeyToken=##ommited
 {}2024-04-02 08:02:59.887 +02:00 [ERR] (at LibationFileManager.InteropFactory.CurrentDomain_AssemblyResolve(System.Object, System.ResolveEventArgs)) Unable to load module Windows, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null, ContentType=WindowsRuntime
 {}2024-04-02 08:02:59.895 +02:00 [ERR] (at LibationFileManager.InteropFactory.CurrentDomain_AssemblyResolve(System.Object, System.ResolveEventArgs)) Unable to load module Microsoft.Windows.SDK.NET, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null
 {}2024-04-02 08:03:00.217 +02:00 [ERR] (at LibationFileManager.InteropFactory.CurrentDomain_AssemblyResolve(System.Object, System.ResolveEventArgs)) Unable to load module Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Relational.resources, Version=7.0.12.0, Culture=en-GB, PublicKeyToken=##ommited
 {}2024-04-02 08:03:00.228 +02:00 [ERR] (at LibationFileManager.InteropFactory.CurrentDomain_AssemblyResolve(System.Object, System.ResolveEventArgs)) Unable to load module Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Relational.resources, Version=7.0.12.0, Culture=en, PublicKeyToken=##ommited
 {}2024-04-02 08:03:01.387 +02:00 [INF] (at ApplicationServices.LibraryCommands.GetCounts(System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1[[DataLayer.LibraryBook, DataLayer, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null]])) Book counts. ##ommited
 {}2024-04-02 08:03:01.401 +02:00 [INF] (at ApplicationServices.LibraryCommands.GetCounts(System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1[[DataLayer.LibraryBook, DataLayer, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null]])) PDF counts. ##ommited
 {}2024-04-02 08:03:01.826 +02:00 [INF] (at ApplicationServices.LibraryCommands.GetCounts(System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1[[DataLayer.LibraryBook, DataLayer, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null]])) Book counts. ##ommited
 {}2024-04-02 08:03:01.831 +02:00 [INF] (at ApplicationServices.LibraryCommands.GetCounts(System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1[[DataLayer.LibraryBook, DataLayer, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null]])) PDF counts. ##ommited
 {}2024-04-02 08:03:17.811 +02:00 [ERR] (at LibationFileManager.InteropFactory.CurrentDomain_AssemblyResolve(System.Object, System.ResolveEventArgs)) Unable to load module System.Net.Sockets.resources, Version=7.0.0.0, Culture=en-GB, PublicKeyToken=##ommited
 {}2024-04-02 08:03:17.840 +02:00 [ERR] (at LibationFileManager.InteropFactory.CurrentDomain_AssemblyResolve(System.Object, System.ResolveEventArgs)) Unable to load module System.Net.Sockets.resources, Version=7.0.0.0, Culture=en, PublicKeyToken=##ommited
 {}2024-04-02 08:13:12.063 +02:00 [INF] (at FileManager.PersistentDictionary.writeFile(System.String, Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JToken)) Config changed. {"propertyName":"SettingsDialog","newValue":"{\r\n  \"X\": 1031,\r\n  \"Y\": 216,\r\n  \"Height\": 271,\r\n  \"Width\": 900,\r\n  \"IsMaximized\": false\r\n}"}
 {}2024-04-02 08:22:59.830 +02:00 [INF] (at FileManager.PersistentDictionary.writeFile(System.String, Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JToken)) Config changed. {"propertyName":"Books","newValue":"\\\\?\\C:\\Users\\sebas\\Downloads"}
 {}2024-04-02 08:22:59.866 +02:00 [INF] (at FileManager.PersistentDictionary.writeFile(System.String, Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JToken)) Config changed. {"propertyName":"SettingsDialog","newValue":"{\r\n  \"X\": 3920,\r\n  \"Y\": 458,\r\n  \"Height\": 499,\r\n  \"Width\": 937,\r\n  \"IsMaximized\": false\r\n}"}
 {}2024-04-02 08:23:01.690 +02:00 [INF] (at FileManager.PersistentDictionary.writeFile(System.String, Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JToken)) Config changed. {"propertyName":"MainWindow","newValue":"{\r\n  \"X\": 3329,\r\n  \"Y\": 250,\r\n  \"Height\": 768,\r\n  \"Width\": 1968,\r\n  \"IsMaximized\": false\r\n}"}

[rmcrackan]

Weird. It works for me and your setting looks correct:

"BooksDirectory":"\\\\?\\C:\\Users\\sebas\\Libation\\Books"

If you right click a book and "Re-download this audiobook", where does the new one end up?

[rmcrackan]

Another thing to try: if you do this with a folder not named 'books', do you get the same error?

[sebinum]

Sorry, maybe wasn't fully clear. I started off with one of the default locations. Here Books as a target works for the options:

• My Users folder
• The same folder that Libtation is running from
• My Documents

Here it automatically uses *\Books as the target path.

Once I select custom path literally every path is possible, as long as the target folder is NOT Books or books.

Example 1: Target C:\Users\sebas\Downloads\Books

Output from Settings.json

"Books": "\\\\?\\C:\\Users\\sebas\\Downloads",

Example 2: Target C:\Users\sebas\Downloads\Books\Random

Output from Settings.json

"Books": "\\\\?\\C:\\Users\\sebas\\Downloads\\Books\\Random",

To me it seems, that for the custom path it doesn't allow for the target path to end in Books, maybe because it is somehow reserved for the pre-selectable options from the default selection mentioned above?

[rmcrackan]

Once I select custom path literally every path is possible, as long as the target folder is NOT Books or books.

Wacky. This works just fine for me.

[sebinum]

Mhh weird... any idea what could prevent it? I just tried to manually overwrite it in Settings.json, but it will just dump it in the Downloads folder (one hierarchy above).

Edit: I re-checked the logs on Windows 10 and Linux Mint XFCE (VM), I can see the following 2 errrors popping up irrespective of OS:

 {}2024-04-02 23:55:56.488 +02:00 [ERR] (at LibationFileManager.InteropFactory.CurrentDomain_AssemblyResolve(System.Object, System.ResolveEventArgs)) Unable to load module Windows, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null, ContentType=WindowsRuntime
 {}2024-04-02 23:55:56.495 +02:00 [ERR] (at LibationFileManager.InteropFactory.CurrentDomain_AssemblyResolve(System.Object, System.ResolveEventArgs)) Unable to load module Microsoft.Windows.SDK.NET, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null

Peculiar.

[rmcrackan]

Thank you for your patience. Finally found it. It was a Chardonnay-only bug which is why I didn't see it since I use Classic. I created a pre-release with your fix: v11.3.7