JavaScript Error when trying to add to photo library locations

Prospector

When I installed tonfotos 1.9.12 I set library locations to just Photos to deal with my main collection of photos first. Now I want to add other locations but when I click File/Library Locations or type Alt-Shift-L I get the error message shown above. A similar message occurred when I tried this earlier with version 1.9.12.

I looked in C:\Users\nishi\AppData\Local\tonfotos\app-1.9.13\resources\app.webpack\main. It contains index.js (3.05 MB), ffmpeg_worker.js (320 kB), telegram_worker.js (740 kB), and three folders named license, models, and native_modules.

Alt-Shift-L adds a lot to the logfile, but the logfile ends with the following. I truncated the Path and removed some blank lines for brevity. The top portion from GENUS to the blank line is repeated once for each physical drive connected directly to the computer.

__GENUS : 2
__CLASS : Win32_LogicalDiskToPartition
__SUPERCLASS : CIM_LogicalDiskBasedOnPartition
__DYNASTY : CIM_Dependency
__RELPATH : Win32_LogicalDiskToPartition.Antecedent="\\NISHI-RAPTOR\root\cimv2:Win32_DiskPartition.DeviceID=
\"Disk #0, Partition
#1\"“,Dependent=”\\NISHI-RAPTOR\root\cimv2:Win32_LogicalDisk.DeviceID=\“X:\”"
__PROPERTY_COUNT : 4
__DERIVATION : {CIM_LogicalDiskBasedOnPartition, CIM_BasedOn, CIM_Dependency}
__SERVER : NISHI-RAPTOR
__NAMESPACE : root\cimv2
__PATH : \NISHI-RAPTOR\root\cimv2:Win32_LogicalDiskToPartition.Antecedent="\\NISHI-RAPTOR\root\cimv2:Win
32_DiskPartition.DeviceID=\"Disk #0, Partition
#1\"“,Dependent=”\\NISHI-RAPTOR\root\cimv2:Win32_LogicalDisk.DeviceID=\“X:\”"
Antecedent : \NISHI-RAPTOR\root\cimv2:Win32_DiskPartition.DeviceID=“Disk #0, Partition #1”
Dependent : \NISHI-RAPTOR\root\cimv2:Win32_LogicalDisk.DeviceID=“X:”
EndingAddress : 239499517439
StartingAddress : 122683392
PSComputerName : NISHI-RAPTOR

+0ms | —–>> CRASH DUMP <<—–
+0ms | 0.80% of 35.6Mb heap is used my main process, 19.2Mb of external memory used, 0.0Mb used for arrayBuffers.
+0ms | TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘split’)
at C:\Users\nishi\AppData\Local\tonfotos\app-1.9.13\resources\app.webpack\main\index.js:2:990362
at Array.map (<anonymous>)
at C:\Users\nishi\AppData\Local\tonfotos\app-1.9.13\resources\app.webpack\main\index.js:2:990332
at ChildProcess.exithandler (node:child_process:401:7)
at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:513:28)
at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1093:16)
at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:302:5) uncaughtException
+0ms | —>> PATH: C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files...

My computer has 6 physical drives, several computers on a local network, and the Windows Subsystem for Linux installed. From the log file, the crash dump appears to occur just after the log file processes all of the physical drives. The other items in Explorer that might be seen by tonfotos as other places to look for locations to add to the library are Libraries, Network, Linux and CopyTrans. I disconnected all shared drives from the other computers, so there are no network drives but the other computers are visible in Explorer. The folders for the installed Linux distributions, are exposed as if they were network shares. They appear in Windows 11 Explorer on the left side under “This PC\Linux”, which is below Drives, Libraries, and Network. CopyTrans is an installed program that provides an interface to iPhone/iPad photos through Explorer. From Explorer, it looks like another drive, and is listed above the physical drives..

If I click OK to dismiss the error then I can click either Add location or the + icon to select a folder to add to my library locations. Tonfotos takes me through the process of selecting a folder, but the folder is not added. No further error messages are shown and I can repeatedly attempt to add a folder with the same result. When I close tonfotos, restart it, then try again, I get the same error message.

I restarted Windows 11 (latest version), ran sfc and dism to check that there was no corruption detected in my Windows system, and then ran chkdsk on each of the drives to verify that these were not causing problems.

I only downloaded tonfotos a week ago but promptly bought a license and love it. Please let me know if you have any suggestions or want more information. I am thinking of reinstalling tonfotos but am concerned that I might have to wait a long time for it to rescan. So far my tonfotos library has >80k photos.

Andrey

Prospector Sorry that you had to face this problem and thank you very much for providing detailed information. Can you please send us the logs to support@tonfotos.com?

Please don’t reinstall Tonfotos, that will not solve the problem. My preliminary guess it that we will have to make some changes to the software, but first we need to see the logs and then we will see if we will need more information to fix the issue.

Prospector

Thank you for directing my attention to the problem Andrey! My mistake. Problem solved. I really appreciate your prompt response both in community here and to my email containing the log files.

Not many other users should encounter this unless they unskillfully customize their Powershell command line interface

This was caused by an erroneous line that I added to my Microsoft.Powershell_profile.ps1 file (found in Documents/WindowsPowerShell). The profile runs whenever Powershell starts. Tonfotos uses Powershell to generate a list of drives shown in the log file. When tonfotos ran the Powershell script, Powershell first ran the profile.ps1 to do any custom initialization that the user set up. In my case, that initialization included an alias npp, pointing to Notepad++. The alias was set long ago and does not work any more so it generates an error message that I have been ignoring. This error injected some unwanted lines that are visible in the tonfotos log file. Understandably, tonfotos was unable to parse this unexpected text causing the javascript error message.