[Develop] startup when the movies directory is gone

[Ben Dean-Kawamura]

Either behavior is okay with me.  Seems like silently creating the directory
is more dangerous, since if it's a disconnected network drive then you lose
all your meta data.  But I don't have strong feelings.

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 05:09:38PM -0500, Nick Nassar wrote:
> Maybe we should change the default behavior of the callback to silently
> create the directory, so that frontends that don't implement the
> callback don't die in this case.
> 
> Other than that, it seems like a good way to handle it.
> 
> >>>>> "Ben" == Ben Dean-Kawamura <ben at pculture.org> writes:
> 
>     Ben> The way I implemented it, was to make a callback method that's
>     Ben> called when the backend notices the movies directory is gone.
>     Ben> By default, it halts the startup process.  But frontends can
>     Ben> install a new callback to override that behavior.
> 
>     Ben> I think that's fairly hacky, but it's the best way I could
>     Ben> think of it.  Can anyone think of a better way?
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