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Initial testing confirms repeat problem with filesystem access, usually on first launch or after renderer off overnight with UMS running:

• title "M*A*S*H (MASH\ 1970\ Blu-ray).mkv" not parsed
  "Not Supported File Format" reported for all titles

This is the same as the 5.0.1 release.

"\" is not acceptable char on Windows so I suppose it is hidden as UMS code can't handle with it (also in case you are on Linux)
Rename file and test again. If it will fix your problem, definitely it is connected with it so easier to debug it in UMS.

michaelt wrote:

ExSport wrote:"\" is not acceptable char on Windows so I suppose it is hidden as UMS code can't handle with it (also in case you are on Linux)

I'll try changing it to a semicolon ';' and see if no one notices.

I changes the '\' to ';', logged out, logged back in, launched UMS.
Same issues:

• title "M*A*S*H (MASH; 1970; Blu-ray).mkv" not parsed
  "Not Supported File Format" reported for all titles

Quit UMS, relaunched UMS - works fine!

Next: changed '*' to '-' and repeated test.
It seems to work ok on the first try. I'll try more later.

Edit: "M-A-S-H (MASH; 1970; Blu-ray)" works ofter logout-login and long idle times between launches. Someone, somewhere has a problem with the asterisk '*' in pathnames! If it pops up again later, I'll start bug post.
From the prolific use of '*' it might be worthwhile to root cause this.

However, why is the '*' behavior not consistent??

I did a complete scan of all printable characters in file names and found only one "problem": '/' and ':'.
OSX allows a slash in pathnames but actually stores them internally as colon ':'. There is no way to get around it, slash is the only printable character not allowed in unix land, hence the colon fudge.

UMS bottom line: all printable characters handed to UMS behaved properly except for one: ampersand '&'.
The full name is passed and shows up in the log but the display truncates everything after the '&'. This may be a Samsung problem.

Log shows filename "Chaos;; Head; The Complete Series (DVD & Blu-ray Combo: Limited Edition)"
Screen shows "Chaos;; Head; The Complete Series (DVD &"

Also in the log there are two other names which failed to parse but a "Restart Server" fixed it.

• "10-Movie America's Favorite Country Stars; Is There Life Out There? : Baron And The Kid : Crazy : ….mkv"
  "10-Movie Collection Featuring Brad Pitt; Too Young To Die? (1990) : The White Raven : Booster : Street Corner Justice : ....mkv"