It seems the intro detection feature is at the very least time intensive and potentially resource intensive? It would make sense that it is only done once. As mentioned here there a a few things that trigger it that could be prevented. Some suggestion are keeping a record of the file hash in the …

Intro Detection media file hashing so any file moves don't trigger re-running Intro Detection

solitas February 14, 2024, 6:14am 5

@ChuckPa Is there an update on this? The feature request thread has been closed due to inactivity Conserve Intros when change directory

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