IOError during apps refresh (trying to load start menu)

[theotherp]

16:27:43.853 ** ERROR: Error from Apps.Apps.on_catalog: <class 'OSError'>: failed to scan directory: C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\app\Keypirinha\default\Packages\Apps.keypirinha-package\apps.py", line 44, in on_catalog
  File "D:\app\Keypirinha\default\Packages\Apps.keypirinha-package\apps.py", line 170, in _catalog_startmenu
  File "D:\app\Keypirinha\python\site\keypirinha_util.py", line 331, in scan_directory
raise IOError("failed to scan directory: " + str(base_dir))

That directory exists and can be read without administrator rights.

[polyvertex]

That directory exists and can be read without administrator rights.

If you are absolutely positive about this statement, then one of its sub-folders may require elevated privileges I suppose? I fail to see any other reason why it would raise this exception in this context.

Note that this issue is closely related to #19, which will be corrected in the next release.

[theotherp]

I'll double check tomorrow.

[theotherp]

I started python 3.5 without any special priviliges (the same as Keypirinha, I have UAC disabled) and calling

print glob.glob("C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu")

printed all files and folders in that directory.

[polyvertex]

Thanks for checking. glob.glob silently skips files/folders it can't read, which is the way the fix to #19 works ATM (to be released). So it is likely that your problem will vanish along with the next release...

That being said, I would prefer to know exactly why it fails in your case. In the worst case scenario, you might miss some items of your Start Menu in Keypirinha. Probably not such a big deal but still. Would you accept to do some more testing if I send you a more verbose-log version of Keypirinha? In which case I would need the resulting log file.

EDIT: v2.4 released. It might fix your issue. Please double-check the logs to see if some error still pops up. Meanwhile I'll keep this issue open.

[polyvertex]

@theotherp any better with v2.4?

[polyvertex]

I'm closing this as it is assumed to be fixed since 2.4 and nobody else gave feedback on it.