Folder display skipping levels in hierarchy

Bug
1

Expected Behavior

You can step through levels of a folder hierarchy - here’s my example:

Folder/pictures/Archive/[2021/2021-07_July/2021-07-24-Sat-Dane:Janna Wedding – event/Mark Turner

Current Behavior

When I get to the “2021-07_July” level and click it, it jumps me straight to “Mark Turner”

Folder/pictures/Archive/[2021/2021-07_July/2021-07-24-Sat-Dane:Janna Wedding – event/Mark Turner

Steps to Reproduce

I believe this is caused by a path naming issue between MacOS and Linux/Unix…

I created the “2021-07-24-Sat-Dane/Janna Wedding – event” folder on my Mac, mapped (SMB) to my unRaid NAS.

NOTE the “/” in the filename - just habit. Obviously that’s a path separator on Linux, but isn’t on a Mac (which uses “:”).

So on the unRaid box, the actual dirname was “2021-07-24-Sat-Dane:Janna Wedding – event” with the colon - that is hidden from the Mac side and displays as the “/”.

As nearly as I can tell, something in the “colon” confuses things.

I renamed the folder in question to have just a hyphen ("-") in that spot and resynced - now the directories appear properly (although I haven’t gotten them to populate fully).

Environment

Operating system and version:

unRaid Docker

PhotoStructure edition:

v1.0.0-beta.15

2

Thanks for the report!

PhotoStructure currently assumes that all path separators are actually path separators.

I’ll play with this on my test boxes and see how I can add support for this.

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Well, that’s the thing… On the NAS where PhotoStructure was running, the directory name had a “colon” - it should be legal filename character on Linux I believe.

But it seemed to confuse Photostructure.

Now my Mac interprets that colon as a “/” for display, but again, didn’t treat it as a path separator…

But things got confused.

I’m thinking that you may need to check for “:” and escape it or something, but this is a fairly edge case.

Just wanted to bring it up as it has taken me a while playing with it to figure out why I couldn’t walk down this one directory tree and it would “jump” to the bottom.

4

Ah, OK. If you could DM me the full path (from your NAS), and the full path (as mounted on your Unraid box), that would help.

5

Are there any other directories that have contents in .../Archive/2021?

Note that by default, PhotoStructure will “skip over” empty interstitial tags that only have one child tag and no direct assets.

If you don’t like this, set fastForwardEmptyTags=false.

See https://forum.photostructure.com/t/volume-id-shows-as-a-tag/754/5?u=mrm for details.

(Also, I checked and there really isn’t a way to “escape” a forward-slash in a filename on POSIX systems, so I don’t think that’s what we’re fighting here.)

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There is contents in between.

If you could, I would test a directory name with a colon in an intermediary directory.

Root/something:bad/bottom

I’ll try to test later when I get a chance.