Trailing \ on UNC paths crashes about subsync HOT 3 CLOSED

It might have something to do with having a space in the path as the following path with a trailing \ works:

PS D:\SubSync> dotnet run --project .\src\SubSync\SubSync.csproj '\\C3P0\Storage\media\Movies\'

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Hmm, strange! Almost sounds like a bug in the FileSystemWatcher itself.
Just to be sure I got it right.

these works:
dotnet run --project .\src\SubSync\SubSync.csproj '\\C3P0\Storage\media\TV\Bull (2016)'
dotnet run --project .\src\SubSync\SubSync.csproj '\\C3P0\Storage\media\Movies\'

this does not work:
dotnet run --project .\src\SubSync\SubSync.csproj '\\C3P0\Storage\media\TV\Bull (2016)\'

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I will play around with it and see if i can recreate the error. If not, I will just trim all trailing backslashes from the paths.

Thanks for reporting this, @hellfirehd! 👍

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Ok. This is crazy.

This is actually a bug in the dotnet core! When it reads the argument that is passed in using double or single quoutes AND when having a trailing backslash it will actually include the single/double quoute as part of the text.

when you pass: '\\C3P0\Storage\media\TV\Bull (2016)' it is read as: \\C3P0\Storage\media\TV\Bull (2016) without quotes.
when you pass: '\\C3P0\Storage\media\TV\Bull (2016)\' it is read as: \\C3P0\Storage\media\TV\Bull (2016)\'

Luckily its very specific. It will either include a backslash and single or double quote. which makes it rather easy to make a workaround for.

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