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Won't Fix

Won't Fix in 5.6.X, 2017.1.X

Votes

1

Found in

5.6.1p3

Issue ID

942412

Regression

Yes

Infinite Guid Changes because of Symlinks

Scene Management

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Reproduction steps:
1. Open project attached (Symlinks.zip).
2. Setup Symlink.
Instructions:
- Open cmd with administrator rights.
- Go to "Project"\Assets\ComScore-iOS-SDK-master\comScore\ComScore.framework
- run this code line: "mklink /D Test Versions"
3. Go to Editor and check the console.
4. If the console is clear, go to "Assets" and use "Reimport All".

Expected result: There will be no warnings due to symlink.
Actual result: Warning appear like "The GUID for ... is already in use by...".

Notes: if you use a symlink to a file directly, everything goes ok, but if you use a symlink to a folder, it shows these warnings (and recreate the guid, etc.). It only happens on 5.6+

Reproduced on: 5.6.0a2, 5.6.3p2, 2017.1.0p5, 2017.2.0b9, 2017.3.0a6

Comments (3)

  1. bencoPB

    May 16, 2019 14:55

    Unity needs to be able to handle iOS Frameworks, we need to reopen this issue.

  2. brokenbeta

    Jun 04, 2018 15:14

    Does whoever marked this as Won't Fix understand the bug? The GUID for these assets changes *every time you give the Editor focus*. It makes clean commits almost impossible.

  3. CapitalGames

    Apr 02, 2018 22:49

    Additional information: This occurs with iOS Frameworks which typically use these sorts of symlinks to reference "Current" from a set of contained libraries etc. As such it's going to occur for a lot of the plugins that support iOS and contain the prescribed Apple frameworks.

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