From c69cd514b8586207df1cb1d38f5f93c0d7efbc3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markus Goetz <markus@woboq.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:39:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Folder/Watcher: Fix up #5174 #5153

It was surprising to have a broken symlink return empty for
canonical path.
---
 src/gui/folder.cpp | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/gui/folder.cpp b/src/gui/folder.cpp
index b1112e13a..87f600bc1 100644
--- a/src/gui/folder.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/folder.cpp
@@ -123,9 +123,11 @@ Folder::~Folder()
 void Folder::checkLocalPath()
 {
     const QFileInfo fi(_definition.localPath);
-
     _canonicalLocalPath = fi.canonicalFilePath();
-    if( !_canonicalLocalPath.endsWith('/') ) {
+    if (_canonicalLocalPath.isEmpty()) {
+        qDebug() << "Broken symlink:" << _definition.localPath;
+        _canonicalLocalPath = _definition.localPath;
+    } else if( !_canonicalLocalPath.endsWith('/') ) {
         _canonicalLocalPath.append('/');
     }