The scanner does not follow symlinks

[tereteru]

home-gallery does not seem to detect symlinked pictures. When using a directory full of them, the scan ends almost instantly, and nothing is added to the gallery.

[xemle]

That is true by now. I will take this into account for a feature request.

If you are a developer you can try to change the indexer in https://github.com/xemle/home-gallery/blob/master/packages/index/src/walker.js#L25 and change the fs.lstat() call to fs.stat(). By theory it should solve your problem.

[tereteru]

After changing fs.lstat to fs.stat, the pictures seem to be detected. However, no thumbnails are created... Would you have any idea how to fix this?

[xemle]

I could not reproduce your issue with following test

• Create a source dir with symlinks of a file and a dir and a file outside of the source root

dira/filea.png
dirb -> dira
fileb.png
filec.png -> fileb.png
filed.png -> ../filed.png

• Bootstrap the gallery with current master: Only 2 files dira/filea.png and fileb.png are shown
• Changed the fs.lstat to fs.stat and build the source again
• Update the gallery: 3 files are shown including filed.png

Could you describe what you did differently?

[tereteru]

Hi! Sorry for the late reply. I didn't delete the database at first, but after doing so, it works fine. Thanks a lot!

[xemle]

Symbolic links are now followed by #107 (> v1.14.4)