From 2350c45f65c594889d039869b591879168e89f09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Schmidt <alex@treefish.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 22:45:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] print observer error

---
 src/dirtrigger.py | 12 +++++-------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/dirtrigger.py b/src/dirtrigger.py
index 9047336..9bcad35 100644
--- a/src/dirtrigger.py
+++ b/src/dirtrigger.py
@@ -13,16 +13,14 @@ class DirTrigger(FileSystemEventHandler):
         self._cool_time = cool_time
         self._max_time = max_time
         self._lock = threading.Lock()
+        self._observer = Observer()
+        self._observer.schedule(self, path=dir_path, recursive=True)
 
+    def start(self):
         try:
-            self._observer = Observer()
-            self._observer.schedule(self, path=dir_path, recursive=True)
+            self._observer.start()
         except Exception as e:
-            logging.error("Error creating file observer for %s: %s", dir_path, str(e))
-            raise e
-
-    def start(self):
-        self._observer.start()
+            logging.warning("Error starting file observer for %s: %s", dir_path, str(e))
 
     def stop(self):
         self._observer.stop()
-- 
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