Linked folders (5.0.46)

haeb · Post by **haeb** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:23 pm

Hi all,

after upgrading to from 4.x to 5.0.46 i can't use my main media folders, because they are softlinks and twonkymedia refuses to use links.

logfile entry:
...
16:58:38:726 LOG_SCAN: ignored link /daten/musik/alles/Marianne Faithfull
...

The previous version does accept these media folders. Is there a setting to get my folders back?

Horst

Otacon · Post by **Otacon** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:07 pm

Mine follows symlinks just fine, didnt have to change anything. I think there's a configurable option for inotify following symlinks, but not for the whole app?

haeb · Post by **haeb** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:47 pm

Hi otacon,
thanks for your suggestion, but i found it out by myself.

Changing the twonkymedia-server.ini (not twonkymedia-server-default.ini

) followlinks=0 to followlinks=1 gives me back the symlink folders. For it is binary, use a emac editor!

Horst

ToyotaHEAD · Post by **ToyotaHEAD** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 12:27 am

ok i must be a total newb or something....

But I am having the same problem, where my media isnt being scanned. Infact the log reports the directories as being ignored that contain my media. So I see above a fix to follow symlinks. Now when I go to amend the twonkymedia-server.ini via the console; the file is all giberish (sorta like a binary file...)

I went back and amended the twonkymedia-server.default.ini file to follow symlinks, then copied it over to twonkymedia-server.ini. Thinking this would allow me to start fresh. And by all means it did. I had to re-enter my activation code, and re-enter my media's dir again. Unfortunatly it still comes up saying these directories are being ignored.

HELP.....

Thanks

PeeBee · Post by **PeeBee** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:48 pm

ToyotaHEAD wrote:ok i must be a total newb or something....

But I am having the same problem, where my media isnt being scanned. Infact the log reports the directories as being ignored that contain my media. So I see above a fix to follow symlinks. Now when I go to amend the twonkymedia-server.ini via the console; the file is all giberish (sorta like a binary file...)

I went back and amended the twonkymedia-server.default.ini file to follow symlinks, then copied it over to twonkymedia-server.ini. Thinking this would allow me to start fresh. And by all means it did. I had to re-enter my activation code, and re-enter my media's dir again. Unfortunatly it still comes up saying these directories are being ignored.

HELP.....

Thanks

You can check the option that is set by using:

http://<your-ip>:9000/rpc/get_option?followlinks

in your browser. Then try setting the option using an RPC call instead which will then update the INI file correctly:

http://<your-ip>:9000/rpc/set_option?followlinks=1

PB

ToyotaHEAD · Post by **ToyotaHEAD** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:54 pm

Yup done that, follow links is definitely = 1.

As a test I set a share to just root.... / and let it grind on the entire filesystem. There were several ignored dir's.

/usr
/var
/etc
and so on...

The few it did not ignore were:

/
/home

Is this a hard-coded ignore list that twonky uses? If so I am kinda confused, as the twonky uploaded destinations are:
/var/twonkymedia/twonkymedia-server-uploaded-music
/var/twonkymedia/twonkymedia-server-uploaded-videos
/var/twonkymedia/twonkymedia-server-uploaded-pictures
All of which are being ignored as well...???

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