Never had a problem with the GUI parsing project files.  No issues with symbolic links.<div><br></div><div>I have generally found basex very reliable but never try to update the installed version; it&#39;s always move the old, unpack the new.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 08:09 Christian Grün &lt;<a href="mailto:christian.gruen@gmail.com">christian.gruen@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Thanks for your assessments. So maybe we should ensure that every file and directory will only be parsed once.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Did anyone of you have problems with the automatic parsing of project files in the BaseX GUI, or with symbolic links in particular?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Am Mi., 23. Jan. 2019, 09:12 hat Marco Lettere &lt;<a href="mailto:m.lettere@gmail.com" target="_blank">m.lettere@gmail.com</a>&gt; geschrieben:<br></div></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <div class="m_621868545844833879m_1519856948356303079moz-cite-prefix">Same for us over here. The ability to
      follow symlinks is a very powerful feature that we use to
      externalize folders (data, restxq for instance). So please don&#39;t
      remove it altogether! <br>
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    <div class="m_621868545844833879m_1519856948356303079moz-cite-prefix">M.<br>
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    <div class="m_621868545844833879m_1519856948356303079moz-cite-prefix">On 22/01/19 23:50, Graydon Saunders
      wrote:<br>
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      I&#39;ve been handling updates by making data/ a symbolic link to a
      data directory that&#39;s a sibling of the basex directory.  (Move the
      old, unpack the new, go into new and replace data/ with a symbolic
      link up and over.)
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      <div>Would hate to see that stop working.<br>
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          <div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 17:36 Christian Grün &lt;<a href="mailto:christian.gruen@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">christian.gruen@gmail.com</a>&gt;
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              <div>Good to hear that! I can’t recollect that something
                particular has changed in version 9.1.2, regarding the
                scanning of project files, but I’ll have some thoughts
                how we can trace and interrupt such loops (or ignore
                symbolic links instead).</div>
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                  <div dir="ltr">Am Di., 22. Jan. 2019, 23:22 hat
                    Bridger Dyson-Smith &lt;<a href="mailto:bdysonsmith@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">bdysonsmith@gmail.com</a>&gt;
                    geschrieben:<br>
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                    <div dir="auto">Glad that helped :)
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                      <div dir="auto">I see this when I start from a
                        fresh install vs expanding the ZIP into the same
                        directory. </div>
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                      <div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 5:17 PM Rick
                        Graham &lt;<a href="mailto:rickhg12hs@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">rickhg12hs@gmail.com</a>
                        wrote:<br>
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                        <div dir="ltr">Thanks Bridger!
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                          <div>Indeed, I quit basexgui and manually
                            edited .basexgui to set the project
                            directory to a newly created empty
                            directory.  basexgui seems normal/stable
                            after that.</div>
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                          <div>I rarely, as in almost never, use wine
                            but I didn&#39;t have this issue with previous
                            versions of BaseX.  Something seems
                            unexpected here.</div>
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                          <div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 11:04
                            PM Bridger Dyson-Smith &lt;<a href="mailto:bdysonsmith@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">bdysonsmith@gmail.com</a>&gt;
                            wrote:<br>
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                              <div>Hi Rick, et al,</div>
                              <div>I think (but am not 100% sure) that
                                the GUI defaults to looking through your
                                home directory on startup. So, somewhere
                                in `~/rick/.wine/dosdevices/...` you
                                have symbolic links that are looped. <br>
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                              <div><br>
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                              <div>I think you might be able to
                                circumvent this problem by finding
                                `.basexgui` - it would probably be close
                                to wherever you started the GUI from on
                                your filesystem. I think you can edit
                                some of the PATHS there and that may
                                help?</div>
                              <div><br>
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                              <div>Again, I&#39;m not sure. HTH!</div>
                              <div>Best,</div>
                              <div>Bridger<br>
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                              <div dir="ltr" class="m_621868545844833879m_1519856948356303079m_4404758241433548661m_8973964876730825312m_-1645761260295444711gmail-m_3552871857442294131gmail_attr">On
                                Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 4:56 PM Rick Graham
                                &lt;<a href="mailto:rickhg12hs@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">rickhg12hs@gmail.com</a>&gt;
                                wrote:<br>
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                                  <div dir="ltr">
                                    <div dir="ltr">The command-line
                                      seemed to be operating normally.
                                      <div><br>
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                                      <div>What exactly is/are my
                                        project directories?</div>
                                      <div><br>
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                                      <div>I attached to the running GUI
                                        instance `strace -f -e
                                        trace=stat -p 13368` and it has
                                        infinite repetitions of:</div>
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                                        <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font face="monospace, monospace">[pid
                                            13436]
stat(&quot;/home/rick/.wine/dosdevices/z:/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone2/subsystem/thermal_zone0/device/subsystem/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:75/subsystem/devices/PNP0C0A:02&quot;,
                                            0x7f7beb2796e0) = -1 ELOOP
                                            (Too many levels of symbolic
                                            links)</font></blockquote>
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                                      <div><br>
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                                      <div>What&#39;s going on here?</div>
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                                  <div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at
                                    10:21 PM Christian Grün &lt;<a href="mailto:christian.gruen@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">christian.gruen@gmail.com</a>&gt;
                                    wrote:<br>
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                                              <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font face="monospace,
                                                  monospace"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>at
org.basex.gui.view.project.ProjectFiles.add(ProjectFiles.java:167)<br>
                                                  <span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>at
org.basex.gui.view.project.ProjectFiles.add(ProjectFiles.java:173)<br>
                                                  <span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>at
org.basex.gui.view.project.ProjectFiles.add(ProjectFiles.java:173)<br>
                                                  <span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>at
org.basex.gui.view.project.ProjectFiles.add(ProjectFiles.java:173)<br>
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                                      <div dir="auto">Looks like a
                                        endless loop that is caused by
                                        parsing the files in your
                                        project directory. Do you
                                        possibly have any symbolic
                                        links?</div>
                                      <div dir="auto"><br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div dir="auto">Can you reproduce
                                        the problem with a completely
                                        fresh BaseX zip archive?</div>
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