From 893188ab287abe7647d4f0dfd9cbff0f9cf5adcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Lo=C3=AFc=20CORBASSON?= <loic.devel@corbasson.fr>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:05:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add the filename to the exception's trace to facilitate error
 resolution (see #12254, #9508, ...)

---
 .../Serialization/MyXmlSerializer.cs                 | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Emby.Server.Implementations/Serialization/MyXmlSerializer.cs b/Emby.Server.Implementations/Serialization/MyXmlSerializer.cs
index aa5fbbdf73..5c9a94cd36 100644
--- a/Emby.Server.Implementations/Serialization/MyXmlSerializer.cs
+++ b/Emby.Server.Implementations/Serialization/MyXmlSerializer.cs
@@ -85,9 +85,17 @@ namespace Emby.Server.Implementations.Serialization
         /// <returns>System.Object.</returns>
         public object? DeserializeFromFile(Type type, string file)
         {
-            using (var stream = File.OpenRead(file))
+            try
             {
-                return DeserializeFromStream(type, stream);
+                using (var stream = File.OpenRead(file))
+                {
+                    return DeserializeFromStream(type, stream);
+                }
+            }
+            catch (Exception ex)
+            {
+                ex.Data.Add("Filename", file);
+                throw;
             }
         }