Recursive loop in Baobab disk space analyser

[UlfZibis]

Start Baobab, Scan a partition or a folder that contains link to a folder.
Lets take example of following:

- Windows 7 Ultimate 64, --> sda1
- Ubuntu 12.04, updated 2012-08-15, --> sda3

- let Baobab scan Windows partition, here "SYSTEM"
- expand ProgramData->Application Data->Application Data->...
(see attached screen shot)
--> folder "Application Data" is duplicated recursively
--> in fact it has only ~150 MB but is shown as 6.1 GB
--> similar behaviour with other folders e.g. "Users"
--> scanning of the ~28 GB partition took >30 minutes

The process continuously run and never ends.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[UlfZibis (ulf-zibis)]

> The process continuously run and never ends.

Not correct in my case, the process ended after some time more then 30 minutes.

[Ravi Kumar (kumarravi-kumar267)]

@ulfzibis: It seems like it never ends. Feel free to update the description if it ends in a limited time..

[Anton Eliasson (eliasson)]

Is it really relevant whether it ends at all or after a long time. The total number and size of files turns out wrong either way, because files are counted multiple times.

[UlfZibis (ulf-zibis)]

Today I've tried the fix from bug 997391.
Baobab now works successfully :-)