[InternalMediaLib] Continuously Rescanning Folders

[sun7radio]

Hello,

I've deactivated "Auto Watch" on all my folders because at some point some of the last folders I added started to be continuously "rescanned" and CPU charge going up to 100%.

Is there a known issue with the "Auto Watch" feature ? (Windows7).

Cheers,
Guy.

[radio42]

The 'AutoWatch' feature uses a build-in Windows OS feature to monitor the state of a folder.
This uses various internal OS resources.
The only 'known' issue with this is, that it should not be extensively used with 'many' folders.
Since this might take up too many resources from your OS.

Unfortunately Microsoft doesn't say what 'many' means - so I guess this really depends on your PC and speed of your IO-sub-system!
Once you detect, that it uses too many resources you know, that this was too much.

[sun7radio]

Right, indeed.

Well, manually reloading/rescanning folders is perfectly manageable after all : ).

Cheers,
Guy.

[radio42]

Note that you can also automatically reload/rescan them:
a) by using the 'Library Automation Option' - see general settings, section 'Folders/Libraries'
b) by using one of the related control-commands, e.g. MAIN_RELOAD_LIBRARY or MAIN_RESCAN_LIBRARY

[sun7radio]

I see, thanks for the tips.

This will be helpful, yes.

Cheers,
Guy.