[Bug 997391] Re: Symbolic links can create recursive loop that causes Baobab to never finish scanning

[Stefano Rivera]

** No longer affects: baobab (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  Symbolic links can create recursive loop that causes Baobab to never
  finish scanning

Status in “ntfs-3g” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “baobab” package in Fedora:
  Unknown
Status in “ntfs-3g” package in Fedora:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu
  Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

  2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy pkgname' or by checking in Software Center
  3.4.1-0ubuntu1

  3) What you expected to happen
  Detect the presence of symbolic link and omit directories under the link

  4) What happened instead
  Scans directories under the symbolic link, which is in reference to the directory above the symbolic link, and continue scanning without completion.

  
  Case in which bug was discovered:
  When scanning an NTFS drive with Windows 7 installed, the Users\System\AppData\Local\ directory contains a symlink called "Application Data" back to the Users\System\AppData\Local\ directory. This is used to maintain legacy support for older programs that require the Application Data folder. However, when Baobab reaches this point, it assumes that this continues to an infinite depth, and never completes the scan.

  
  Workaround:
  Omit scanning of the directory that is known to contain such links.

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