[Solved - kind of]Unregister a FileLocator

Troubleshooting import-assets
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I use a FileLocator to load from a directory. However, I allow the user to change the name of the directory at runtime (I rename the folder). On the next call to assetManager.loadWhatever() (yes, loading whicever type crashes the app), I get this:

Exception in thread "Thread-7" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Given root path "D:\JME3 Projects\LSF Blueprint Builder\ships\A pod" is not a directory
	at com.jme3.asset.plugins.FileLocator.setRootPath(FileLocator.java:54)
	at com.jme3.asset.ImplHandler$ImplThreadLocal.initialValue(ImplHandler.java:119)
	at java.lang.ThreadLocal.setInitialValue(ThreadLocal.java:180)
	at java.lang.ThreadLocal.get(ThreadLocal.java:170)
	at com.jme3.asset.ImplHandler.tryLocate(ImplHandler.java:177)
	at com.jme3.asset.DesktopAssetManager.loadAsset(DesktopAssetManager.java:359)
	at com.jme3.asset.DesktopAssetManager.loadTexture(DesktopAssetManager.java:390)
	at com.jme3.asset.DesktopAssetManager.loadTexture(DesktopAssetManager.java:400)
	at com.grizeldi.lsfmobile.appstates.MainMenuAppState$1.run(MainMenuAppState.java:99)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

In this case the old directory name was “A Pod” and new one was “Bloxxel”.
I think the problem here is that assetManager tries to look into the folder which has in the meantime disappeared. So how would I remove a FileLocator?

EDIT: Ignore this, I’m stupid :cry:. For future people, there is assetManager.unregisterLocator(). :rolling_eyes: <— this sadly doesn’t work :frowning:
EDIT2: Unregistering the locator did not fix it though. Seeking help still.

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So here, I solved the problem, but I found a “bug” related to forward and backward slashes.
So I registered the FileLocator with someFile.getParent() as a root path parameter. When printing that out it printed .\ships\Test. I wanted to remove the locator without creating a file. So the root path string was ./ships/Test. That did not successfully remove the locator.
So maybe a feature-request to enable forward-slash to backward slash conversion?

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You have to remove it with the same string you added it with.

Though, I’m starting to feel like we should just throw an IllegalArgumentException whenever a file String is passed anywhere with backward slashes in it. Would solve a lot of problems. Let the user normalize their own file names.

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