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Client freeze when accessing addon referenced by symbolic link #1098
Description
Test Environment: Win11
Precondition:
- Addon exists, and is valid
- Symbolic Link to Addon directory is placed in addons directory
Procedure:
- Launch Windower to a FFXI Logged in state
- Load addon
- Trigger registered event from addon
Results:
Addon loads successfully. On event trigger, client will completely freeze, requiring a forced close and restart.
Note: This may or may not be relevant, but the linked directory was on a separate drive, but no files were locked during this time. If there's any additional logging that I can provide, please let me know.
Activity
RubenatorX commentedon Sep 2, 2023
What addon?
What event?
What drive?
claywar commentedon Sep 2, 2023
capture, incoming chunk, HDD->NVMe. Addon was tested unmodified in both states (on the same drive with no symlink, and with symlink). Functions as expected with no symlink, freezes with.
lili-ffxi commentedon May 29, 2025
Is this addon writing to disk when the event fires, or doing something else? It would help troubleshooting if we had the addon available.