I have a fairly large collection and scanning has become a struggle taking up more then 30 min. It works, but takes a long time. A specially frustrating knowing that 90% of the collection are shows that are no longer running and are complete. Jet every library update scans them over and over and ove…

[image] spawn666: scanning has become a struggle taking up more then 30 min 30 minutes?? You lucky!!! Mine can take about 1.5/2 hours. Don’t you do partial scan? [scan] Speeds it up big time!! [image] spawn666: Meta data includes informations if a show has ended or is continuing. W…

The 30+ min is not an entire library just one section. Its a 110TB library in total. The Active or Ended information is in theTVDB. Sickrage for instance uses it. Would it be a big challenge to let plex use it as well? it would make the scans so much more efficient. I notices the update on change …

[image] spawn666: 1, full scan as normal, includes all, just like it is now. (slow) Okay. That sounds good. If you initiate the scan plex will do all. otherwise, only the “active” ones… Sure…

hope this can get some votes, or maybe this is just a problem for the users with large collections.:sweat:

New Scan Library option for 'active' running shows

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New Scan Library option for 'active' running shows

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