From 99c68ddd50353b62f86067a8336c001f0592131d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bond-009 <bond.009@outlook.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:09:05 -0500
Subject: Backport pull request #15468 from jellyfin/release-10.11.z

Check if target exists before trying to follow it

Original-merge: 5878b1ffc569bc7e7204a07e77e0bb57d3984e56

Merged-by: joshuaboniface <joshua@boniface.me>

Backported-by: Bond_009 <bond.009@outlook.com>
---
 MediaBrowser.Controller/IO/FileSystemHelper.cs | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'MediaBrowser.Controller/IO/FileSystemHelper.cs')

diff --git a/MediaBrowser.Controller/IO/FileSystemHelper.cs b/MediaBrowser.Controller/IO/FileSystemHelper.cs
index 324aea7e3..3e390ca42 100644
--- a/MediaBrowser.Controller/IO/FileSystemHelper.cs
+++ b/MediaBrowser.Controller/IO/FileSystemHelper.cs
@@ -92,6 +92,11 @@ public static class FileSystemHelper
             return null;
         }
 
+        if (!targetInfo.Exists)
+        {
+            return targetInfo;
+        }
+
         var currentPath = targetInfo.FullName;
         var visited = new HashSet<string>(StringComparer.Ordinal) { linkPath, currentPath };
         while (File.ResolveLinkTarget(currentPath, returnFinalTarget: false) is FileInfo linkInfo)
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