Bug 399904

Summary:	Kdenlive does not follow symbolic links
Product:	[Applications] kdenlive	Reporter:	Knut Hildebrandt <post>
Component:	User Interface & Miscellaneous	Assignee:	Jean-Baptiste Mardelle <jb>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	fritzibaby
Priority:	NOR	Flags:	fritzibaby: Brainstorm+
Version First Reported In:	18.08.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Chakra
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Knut Hildebrandt 2018-10-16 23:21:01 UTC

When starting old projects - saved January through April 2018 - kdenlive reports "Clip Problems" without showing which clips are missing. Looking into the matter I found out that all clips named "INVALID" in the Project Bin are symbolic links. Adding clips which actually are symbolic worked fine when I created the projects in question.

Interestingly, if I add the same symbolic links to a new project they are found, even after saving and reloading the project. Thus I suppose that conversion from the old to the new project format did not work properly. That the project file had been converted kdenlive announced after loading the old project file. Furthermore it made a backup of the old project file. But even after saving the project after the conversion, next time when the project is loaded the same procedure. 

SOFTWARE VERSIONS
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.13.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.49.9
Qt Version: 5.11.1

Comment 1 emohr 2018-10-18 16:49:31 UTC

You have to save/close and open several times the project until it’s cleaned up.

Comment 2 Knut Hildebrandt 2018-10-18 20:27:43 UTC

(In reply to emohr from comment #1)
> You have to save/close and open several times the project until it’s cleaned
> up.
Why is that? Until now "cleaning up" always worked like a charm with one run. How many will it take from now on?

Comment 3 emohr 2021-02-28 17:14:55 UTC

As it has been a while since this was reported, can you please test and confirm if this issue is still occurring or if this bug report can be marked as resolved.

Please try with the current Kdenlive AppImage version 20.12.2  https://download.kde.org/stable/kdenlive/20.12/linux/

Comment 4 Knut Hildebrandt 2021-02-28 18:48:56 UTC

(In reply to emohr from comment #3)
> As it has been a while since this was reported, can you please test and
> confirm if this issue is still occurring or if this bug report can be marked
> as resolved.
Honestly, I hardly remember what this was about, but just opened some old projects containing symbolic links an the only clips reported missing were really missing. Thus I suppose this bug can be marked as solved.

Thanks for looking into the matter.

Knut

Comment 5 emohr 2021-02-28 19:00:37 UTC

Thank you for the feedback and contribution. Glad to hear it works.