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Symbolic link FTP problems

Posted: 03 Mar 2015, 12:08
by Diecke
Hello,

I've setup AMC to create a nice folder structure with symbolic links on my server. I used the standard settings as described on this forum for rTorrent. But I'm having problems playing back the video files, because the symlink appears to of the type folder. I get this error in Kodi:

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ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(Folder/File.mkv/) failed
(notice the slash at the and)
Is it possible to create a symlink to the file, so Kodi isn't confused?

Cheers

Re: Symbolic link FTP problems

Posted: 03 Mar 2015, 12:51
by rednoah
I don't think there is such as a "folder type symlink" or "file type symlink" ... it's just a symlink.

It's either an issue with Kodi or your FTP server and how they deal with symlinks.

Re: Symbolic link FTP problems

Posted: 03 Mar 2015, 13:10
by Diecke
rednoah wrote:I don't think there is such as a "folder type symlink" or "file type symlink" ... it's just a symlink.

It's either an issue with Kodi or your FTP server and how they deal with symlinks.
Do you have a tip to fix it?
Should I try hard links? But I actually want to delete the file when I delete the original..

There isn't another way to accomplish this right?

Re: Symbolic link FTP problems

Posted: 03 Mar 2015, 14:12
by rednoah
Yes, hardlinks should solve the problem.