diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index a24ccacc..81117f0a 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -6836,12 +6836,9 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Fixed frozen live view with device bonding in case the bonded master is used for
   live viewing (reported by Uwe Scheffler).
 
-2012-01-25: Version 1.7.24
+2012-01-26: Version 1.7.24
 
 - Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto).
-- Revoked "Fixed handling symbolic links in cRecordings::ScanVideoDir()".
-  This change actually broke handling symbolic links (see
-  http://www.vdr-portal.de/board1-news/board2-vdr-news/p1047199-announce-vdr-developer-version-1-7-23/#post1047199).
 - Fixed a high load in case a transponder can't be received.
 - Improved the way DVB_API_VERSION is checked.
 - Updated the Finnish OSD texts (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg).
@@ -6852,3 +6849,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Some improvements to the Makefiles (thanks to Christian Ruppert).
 - Fixed cRecording::LengthInSeconds(), which wrongfully rounded the result to full
   minutes (thanks to Christoph Haubrich).
+- Symbolic links are no longer resolved in cRecordings::ScanVideoDir() (thanks to
+  Sundararaj Reel).
diff --git a/recording.c b/recording.c
index 0d47d3f9..87886557 100644
--- a/recording.c
+++ b/recording.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: recording.c 2.45 2012/01/25 09:32:39 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: recording.c 2.46 2012/01/26 10:02:29 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "recording.h"
@@ -1120,11 +1120,6 @@ void cRecordings::ScanVideoDir(const char *DirName, bool Foreground, int LinkLev
                     continue;
                     }
                  Link = 1;
-                 buffer = ReadLink(buffer);
-                 if (!*buffer)
-                    continue;
-                 if (stat(buffer, &st) != 0)
-                    continue;
                  }
               if (S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) {
                  if (endswith(buffer, deleted ? DELEXT : RECEXT)) {