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Manual forcing to rescan libraries... |
 May 7 2012, 20:03
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Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 6-April 09 Member No.: 68717  |
I would like to see a way to force FB to rescan the library NOW...
I have found two ways to do so.. restart FB2K or remove the library en define it again. Both are not my favorites... by far. Is there another way or is it possible to have a button that does start a rescan of all (or selected) libraries? So: feature request |
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May 7 2012, 20:13
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 Group: Developer Posts: 804 Joined: 28-November 03 Member No.: 10088 |
File-->Preferences-->Media Library, then Right click one the folders
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May 13 2012, 15:02
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Group: Members Posts: 227 Joined: 28-October 05 Member No.: 25414 |
Or shift click on the Library menu - extra options will appear.
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May 13 2012, 15:11
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 Group: Members Posts: 1684 Joined: 28-May 06 From: Düsseldorf Member No.: 31251 |
Is there any reason to manually rescan folders if "Monitoring for changes when running" is enabled?
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May 13 2012, 15:15
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 Group: FB2K Moderator Posts: 4321 Joined: 1-November 06 From: Cincinnati Member No.: 37036 |
QUOTE (q-stankovic @ May 13 2012, 10:11)  Is there any reason to manually rescan folders if "Monitoring for changes when running" is enabled? Do you know how the close door button on elevators work? 
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May 13 2012, 21:06
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Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 6-April 09 Member No.: 68717 |
Thx you all that helped... Never realized a right click action was defined here.. RTFM is here in place, My guess...
The reason to have this is Monitoring is not always as quick as I need it to be... This did help me.. So thanks for those with the attention to help... All others, look into the mirror... and dislike. |
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May 13 2012, 22:20
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Group: Members Posts: 1684 Joined: 28-May 06 From: Düsseldorf Member No.: 31251 |
I really don't understand your problem: the quickest is indeed the live monitoring while foobar runs. How could a manual rescan be faster?
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May 13 2012, 23:33
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 Group: Members Posts: 1048 Joined: 16-February 08 From: NL Member No.: 51347 |
I suppose the library on a networked drive doesn't update as quickly and/or frequently?
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May 14 2012, 00:06
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Group: Members Posts: 1684 Joined: 28-May 06 From: Düsseldorf Member No.: 31251 |
Sure, but does the library on a NAS updates quicklier then applying rescan by restarting foobar2000? That's what the op said.
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May 15 2012, 05:33
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Group: Members Posts: 227 Joined: 28-October 05 Member No.: 25414 |
When first introduced, monitor for changes was not reliable for a few people, myself included. This was apparently due to deficiencies outside of foobar2000. Recent versions seem to have overcome this problem, for me at least, & most, if the lack of posts about it is anything to go by.
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May 15 2012, 05:36
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 Group: Super Moderator Posts: 3267 Joined: 26-July 02 From: princegeorge.ca Member No.: 2796 |
The problem with folder monitoring was, I think, a bug in Samba, the free CIFS/SMB daemon. I remember Yirkha posting a patch once. I bet that's fixed now.
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May 15 2012, 11:49
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Group: Members Posts: 70 Joined: 22-August 10 Member No.: 83276 |
QUOTE (Canar @ May 15 2012, 00:36) The problem with folder monitoring was, I think, a bug in Samba, the free CIFS/SMB daemon. I remember Yirkha posting a patch once. I bet that's fixed now. It's fixed but it seems that some vendors don't update their SMB packages. |
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