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Quite an annoying error / warning on Catalina

This is quite an interesting one.\ It started after upgrading to 3.0.10. It didn't exist in previous versions.\ It happens when switching to the next (or previous) item from a playlist, when the media files are on a network drive and the files are in different folders. That last part is fascinating - let me give an example:\ /Volumes/videos is a mounted network drive via AFP. Mount flags: (afpfs, nodev, nosuid).\ If I add to a playlist:\ /Volumes/videos/seriesX/seasonY/sYe01.mkv\ /Volumes/videos/seriesX/seasonY/sYe02.mkv\ There is no problem when you switch in between them.\ However, if I add:\ /Volumes/videos/seriesX/seasonY/sYe01.mkv\ /Volumes/videos/seriesX/seasonZ/sZe01.mkv\ Then I get the following error, when I try to switch from one to the other (yes, I get the error 2 times):\

Problem accessing a system resource
Potentially, macOS blocks access to your disc. Please open "System Preferences" -> "Security & Privacy" and allow VLC to access your external media in "Files and Folders" section.
Problem accessing a system resource
Potentially, macOS blocks access to your disc. Please open "System Preferences" -> "Security & Privacy" and allow VLC to access your external media in "Files and Folders" section.

You can see it for yourself in error.png.\ It doest not happen when I go to /Volumes/videos/seriesX/seasonZ/ and play a file from there. It also doesn't happen if I add multiple files from /Volumes/videos/seriesX/seasonZ/ to a playlist.\ When I go to "System Preferences" -> "Security & Privacy" -> "Files and Folders", there is no request for access from VLC - files_and_folders.png.\ I additionally checked "Full Disk Access" and there wasn't a request either - full_disk_access.png.\ Normally in Catalina, when an app requests access to a resource, it displays a prompt and VLC actually does that, when it asks to use accessibility features:\ It was not in the list of apps that have requested access to accessibility - accessibility_before.png.\ When I launched it, it requested access - accessibility_access_request.png.\ Even when I denied it, it was still in the list of apps that have requested access - accessibility_after.png.\ Weird enough, I can manually add an app in "Full Disk Access", but I can't to the same in "Files and Folders" (the buttons are greyed out).

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