Web UI refuses to list folder contents if any sub-folders have bad permissions

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#1

(I’m using Duplicacy on Docker with the saspus/duplicacy-web image. It shows “Command Line Version 3.2.5”.)

I’m attempting to set up backups on a folder structured like:

/folder <fine> <backup root>
   /user-1 <fine>
      /sub1 <fine>
      /sub2 <BAD>
      /sub3 <fine>

When setting up include/exclude patterns, or selecting the path for the backup, I can expand /folder, but expanding /folder/user-1 gives an error because /folder/user-1/sub2 cannot be read due to a permissions error.

Though the best approach would be to fix the permission error, that’s not possible in my case, and I don’t intend to back up the contents of that folder anyway. The real problem is that I’m unable to select any of the other folders which I do have permissions to access. Bad permissions on one folder (/folder/user-1/sub2) is entirely preventing me from selecting the other folders (fails to expand /folder/user-1 by showing an error regarding .../sub2).

I can enter my filter rules manually but I was really hoping to be able to use the UI for it…

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#2

If you cannot change that directory, I would avoid making the Web UI browse through it at all: mount only the readable subfolders as separate Docker volumes, or bind-mount sub1 and sub3 under a clean parent and select those paths in Duplicacy. The picker seems to list every child before it can expand the parent, so one unreadable child blocks the whole UI tree. Manual filters still work, but a narrower container mount is usually less fragile.