Hi all,

I'll try to keep this simple, but it's really vexing me ;)

My main music library lives on a dedicated hard drive at
*/mnt/200gigb/MP3 Albums*. Inside this folder, I have two symlinks:
FLAC[/B] -> */MNT/REMOTE-FLAC
[b]A-Z* -> */mnt/200gigb/MP3 Songs* (this contains A - Z directories of
individual tracks)

This arrangement has been working fine for months, with SlimServer
setup to index things appropriately. I don't know if the way this sort
of thing is handled has changed in 6.3.0, but I'm using 6.2.2 and have
been using it since it came out.

Now, for various reasons that I won't go into yet, I want to use
*/mnt/music* as the effective root of my collection, so I symlinked
that to the "MP3 Albums" folder, changed the setting in the preferences
file and did a full rescan. It works... ish.

The problem is that the SQLite database does NOT just contain paths to
*/mnt/music*. Looking through it, you can also find */mnt/200gigb/MP3
Albums* in many places (well over half, at a guess). For my usage, this
is really not a good thing! How can I make SlimServer stop ignoring my
symlinks and JUST use */mnt/music* everywhere - database, playlists
etc?

I was under the impression that the very idea of symlinks was to
transparently point to files and it seems counter-productive that
SlimServer is trying to be overly clever and find the "real" paths. I
wouldn't use symlinks if I wanted it to use real paths, lol...

Thanks in advance,

HB


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