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fix errors when scanning broken symlink - #21
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Issue: DeepSecrets crashes on broken symlinks in the scanned directory
When a directory contains broken symlinks, DeepSecrets fails with an error during the file listing stage. This has become especially noticeable now that many projects include agent-related directories (e.g. .claude or similar), which frequently accumulate broken symlinks.
The crash occurs in iscan_mode.py → _get_files_list() → _size_check():
python
size = os.path.getsize(path)
os.path.getsize() raises FileNotFoundError (via OSError) when the target of a symlink no longer exists, which aborts the entire scan.
Manually adding such directories to excluded_paths avoids the crash, but this is not a proper fix — the scan should not fail just because a broken symlink is present.