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iPodVT:
Target: ipod6g
Version: ae3b34734a-250310

I was listening to an album that I had started playing via the Database Browser.  While it was playing I entered the WPS's context menu and selected Save Current Playlist.  Then while in the virtual keyboard screen I edited the directory name segment of the file pathname to a directory that doesn't exist, expecting that Rockbox would create the directory and place the new playlist file in it.  But that caused a Panic.  I retried the same thing, except that I accessed Save Current Playlist via a long click on the Playlists item in the main menu, and again got a Panic.

Bilgus:
So ARe you saying you get a panic if you atttempt to create a playlist in a directory that doesn't exist in both cases or is it irrespective of the prior existence as well?

iPodVT:

--- Quote from: Bilgus on March 10, 2025, 06:26:10 PM ---So ARe you saying you get a panic if you atttempt to create a playlist in a directory that doesn't exist in both cases or is it irrespective of the prior existence as well?

--- End quote ---

I'm not quite sure what you are asking, but the only difference between the two scenarios is that in the first I accessed Save Current Directory via the WPS's context menus and in the second I accessed Save Current Directory via the context menu attached to the main menu's Playlists item.  Every other aspect was exactly the same between both attempts:  The current playlist was dynamic - derived from playing an album via the Database Browser and not associated with a previously saved playlist.  In both cases I edited the directory segment of the pathname exactly the same way to specify a directory that did not exist.  My Playlists directory is at "/Rockbox Playlists", Rockbox supplied the default path "/Rockbox Playlists/Playlist 1" in the virtual keyboard screen, and both times I edited the pathname to be "/Rockbox Playlists2/Playlist 1".  And both attempts caused a Panic.

Please let me know if I still haven't answered your question satisfactorily or if you have any other questions.

Thanks.

iPodVT:

--- Quote from: Bilgus on March 10, 2025, 06:26:10 PM ---So ARe you saying you get a panic if you atttempt to create a playlist in a directory that doesn't exist in both cases or is it irrespective of the prior existence as well?

--- End quote ---

Hang on - I think I now understand what you are asking.  I'll try it again, editing the directory name to a directory that exists but is not my specified Playlists directory.

iPodVT:
Okay, I created the new directory "/Rockbox Playlists2", started playing an album via the Database Browser, went to Save Current Directory, and edited the supplied path from "/Rockbox Playlists/Playlist 1" to "/Rockbox Playlists2/Playlist 1".  The playlist was successfully saved in "/Rockbox Playlists2".  I also checked to make sure that Rockbox hadn't changed my previously selected Playlists Directory from "/Rockbox Playlists" to "/Rockbox Playlists2", and that was unchanged.  So it seems that the panic I'm reporting is dependent on specifying a directory that doesn't exist.  Of course, since the full path is editable the user could specify a chain of non existent directories (possibly opening a doorway into another dimension...).

BTW - this afternoon I also got a panic doing the same things on an ipodvideo running a dev build from January.

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