From a8013555230c715d3011aca4422c96f76137b672 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sr55 <sr55.hb@outlook.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 19:56:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] WinGui: Make the MRU feature more useful. If the directory is
 not found, check to see if the Parent directory exists.  #1795

---
 .../HandBrakeWPF/ViewModels/ViewModelBase.cs   | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/win/CS/HandBrakeWPF/ViewModels/ViewModelBase.cs b/win/CS/HandBrakeWPF/ViewModels/ViewModelBase.cs
index 54da681dc..13396a676 100644
--- a/win/CS/HandBrakeWPF/ViewModels/ViewModelBase.cs
+++ b/win/CS/HandBrakeWPF/ViewModels/ViewModelBase.cs
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 namespace HandBrakeWPF.ViewModels
 {
     using System;
+    using System.Diagnostics;
     using System.IO;
 
     using Caliburn.Micro;
@@ -94,6 +95,23 @@ namespace HandBrakeWPF.ViewModels
                 return filePath;
             }
 
+            // Check if the parent directory still exists.
+            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(filePath) )
+            {
+                try
+                {
+                    DirectoryInfo parentDirectory = Directory.GetParent(filePath);
+                    if (parentDirectory != null && filePath.Contains(parentDirectory.FullName))
+                    {
+                        return parentDirectory.FullName;
+                    }
+                }
+                catch (Exception exc)
+                {
+                    Debug.WriteLine(exc);
+                }
+            }
+
             return null;
         }
 
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