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When trying to start the slideshow, the spinner never stops and Kodi becomes unresponsive and has to be killed from Task Manager.
There is some kind of recursion going on. Debug log quickly grows to 100MB+ listing the same picture folders being loaded over and over again ...

Typical log entry:

Code:
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 1 times.
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images started with path: 'F:\\Bilder\\2001\\H\xc3\xb8ytider og merkedager\\Jul 2001'
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images started with path: 'F:\\Bilder\\2001\\H\xc3\xb8ytider og merkedager\\Jul 2001\\2. juledag\\'
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images ends
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images started with path: 'F:\\Bilder\\2001\\H\xc3\xb8ytider og merkedager\\Jul 2001\\Aften ++\\'
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images ends
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images started with path: 'F:\\Bilder\\2001\\H\xc3\xb8ytider og merkedager\\Jul 2001\\Diverse Romjul\\'
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images ends
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images started with path: 'F:\\Bilder\\2001\\H\xc3\xb8ytider og merkedager\\Jul 2001\\Julekort\\'
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images ends
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images started with path: 'F:\\Bilder\\2001\\H\xc3\xb8ytider og merkedager\\Jul 2001\\Juletretenning p\xc3\xa5 Haugen\\'
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images ends
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images started with path: 'F:\\Bilder\\2001\\H\xc3\xb8ytider og merkedager\\Jul 2001\\Leathal Rasins\\'
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images ends
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 1 times.
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images started with path: 'F:\\Bilder\\2001\\H\xc3\xb8ytider og merkedager\\Jul 2001'
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images started with path: 'F:\\Bilder\\2001\\H\xc3\xb8ytider og merkedager\\Jul 2001\\2. juledag\\'
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images ends
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images started with path: 'F:\\Bilder\\2001\\H\xc3\xb8ytider og merkedager\\Jul 2001\\Aften ++\\'
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images ends
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images started with path: 'F:\\Bilder\\2001\\H\xc3\xb8ytider og merkedager\\Jul 2001\\Diverse Romjul\\'
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images ends
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images started with path: 'F:\\Bilder\\2001\\H\xc3\xb8ytider og merkedager\\Jul 2001\\Julekort\\'
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images ends
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images started with path: 'F:\\Bilder\\2001\\H\xc3\xb8ytider og merkedager\\Jul 2001\\Juletretenning p\xc3\xa5 Haugen\\'
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images ends
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images started with path: 'F:\\Bilder\\2001\\H\xc3\xb8ytider og merkedager\\Jul 2001\\Leathal Rasins\\'
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images ends
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 1 times.
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images started with path: 'F:\\Bilder\\2001\\H\xc3\xb8ytider og merkedager\\Jul 2001'
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images started with path: 'F:\\Bilder\\2001\\H\xc3\xb8ytider og merkedager\\Jul 2001\\2. juledag\\'
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images ends
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images started with path: 'F:\\Bilder\\2001\\H\xc3\xb8ytider og merkedager\\Jul 2001\\Aften ++\\'
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images ends
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images started with path: 'F:\\Bilder\\2001\\H\xc3\xb8ytider og merkedager\\Jul 2001\\Diverse Romjul\\'
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images ends
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images started with path: 'F:\\Bilder\\2001\\H\xc3\xb8ytider og merkedager\\Jul 2001\\Julekort\\'
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images ends
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images started with path: 'F:\\Bilder\\2001\\H\xc3\xb8ytider og merkedager\\Jul 2001\\Juletretenning p\xc3\xa5 Haugen\\'
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images ends
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images started with path: 'F:\\Bilder\\2001\\H\xc3\xb8ytider og merkedager\\Jul 2001\\Leathal Rasins\\'
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images ends
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 1 times.
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images started with path: 'F:\\Bilder\\2001\\H\xc3\xb8ytider og merkedager\\Jul 2001'
23:34:12 T:59436   ERROR: CPythonInvoker(11, C:\Users\mce\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.screensaver.multi_slideshow\screensaver.py): script didn't stop in 5 seconds - let's kill it
23:34:12 T:55692  NOTICE: Multi Slideshow Screensaver: _get_folder_images started with path: 'F:\\Bilder\\2001\\H\xc3\xb8ytider og merkedager\\Jul 2001\\2. juledag\\'
23:34:12 T:59436   DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x01, sym: 0x001b, unicode: 0x001b, modifier: 0x0
23:34:12 T:59436   DEBUG: CInputManager::OnKey: escape (0xf01b) pressed, action is PreviousMenu
23:34:12 T:55692    INFO: CPythonInvoker(11, C:\Users\mce\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.screensaver.multi_slideshow\screensaver.py): script aborted
23:34:12 T:59600   DEBUG: PERIPHERALS::CPeripherals::GetMappingForDevice - device (2548:1002) mapped to Pulse-Eight CEC Adapter (type = cec)

From the log it appears that the script is killed, but Kodi remains unresponsive.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Cheers

This is Kodi 16RC3 running on Windows 10, but this has been an issue at least from 15.2 on Win8.1