It would be useful to be able to browse to original folder locations from Stash (I’m on Win 11 over a NAS) in order to check for dupes/that scanning has been thorough etc
I asked this in the techo board at Github but got little response other than *“It is impossible because of browser sandboxing”
I don’t get this given that when you choose to delete a file an it’s script, Stash clearly does access the underlying folder structure and deletes the original file, so no sandboxing there?
The reason Stash itself can delete files is that it does not do this through the browser but from the server itself so there’s no sandbox to break out of
Opening a local file from a browser window requires using the file:// protocol, but all modern browsers sandbox this such that the only pages that can open file:// links are those that are themselves opened through file:// links.
That means if you open a HTML document from your harddrive and it links to another file, that will work fine, but if you try to open the one in the File Info tab the browser will refuse
There are workarounds, of course: I’ve configured Firefox to allow me to open these links (I believe using this answer on StackOverflow but it’s been a long time so I can’t quite remember) but you might run into a problem with that depending on where you’re running Stash. You mentioned that you’re running over a NAS, but if that means that both the Stash server and your files are on the NAS then those links simply won’t resolve on your Windows workstation because they’re on a different filesystem and Stash will be presenting the paths as they appear on the server.
Stash Open Media Player is doing something close to this, you could probably modify the plugin to show the file in the directory instead
Thanks both; I have a greater understanding now!
My “NAS” is very simplistic/not really a NAS. I have a mini Windows PC that is exclusively for Stash with the application and files both installed on it and then can home network into the mini PC, so files and app are effectively in the same place even if I’m browsing from another device.
