DJanGo, I'm not sure you are actually interested in the reasons to use recursive folder links; you would rather I just didn't use them, right?
If the developers' policy is, as andyg already suggested, that the software should gracefully detect & handle such links (even if that means just ignoring them), and it is not doing that, then it is a bug and it doesn't matter why I am using them; the most helpful thing any of us can do is to ascertain what the expected behavior is, and work on a solution together. The downside of your suggested workarounds to prevent LMS from processing any *.lnk files is that it is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Most shortcuts are harmless links to files or to benign folders. If the developers' policy is that recursive folder links are too difficult to detect and handle within the current scanning system, then surely a better alternative to ignoring all links would be to simply have a toggle in the config so that the affected users can tell the scanner to follow only file links, never folder links. Then at least the file links will still work. If avoiding loops is too difficult and adding the toggle I suggested is not an option, then I know of another workaround. Instead of simple folder shortcuts, I could use the little-known "shell link folder" functionality of Explorer. These types of links are just somewhat inconvenient to set up. I'd rather be sure that no improvements to LMS are forthcoming first. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mjb2016's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66432 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106698 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
