Is there any chance that Plex developers could implement a rudimentary Master File Table search for files? I use a cloud drive that mounts to the system. The read and writes of the drive are from the cloud host provider. As a result, scanning the whole drive is not possible with larger libraries. Plex also tends to delete scanned items if the drive disconnects from the machine.
User MFT would be optimal in this situation especially with music files that are small and numerous. Check SwiftSearch as an example of how fast this would be at the loss of some accuracy. It would be worth it for us who host online.
turn off emptying trash after a scan in library settings and it will not remove from DB
also moved this to feature suggestions area
Unfortunately this doesn’t fix the issue. The media is there but I am unable to play it as it has a large trashcan icon on it with that setting change. Any ideas on how to fix this?
Scanning 10 tb of music is not reasonable every time Plex wants to refresh data. There should be a better way to fix this issue.
the trash can means it cannot find the files.
I understand that but I am hosting this via a streaming virtual drive hosted online. Check Stablebit Clouddrive out for specifics. The way this software works is that i/o calls from windows is converted to download chunks of the file on demand. As a result, plex “not finding the file” is due to the nature of saving my library this way. As soon as the software recognizes that windows is calling to read the data, it downloads the data and acts like a local drive. This is why I would like to save the whole library but ignore the availability of it. Any solutions?
