Newbie Question : Understanding variable files in scanner

[thw_100]

Hi there

to make things simple i start with a small scanner and try to print the files within the terminal :

Scanner is in series directory

#

Copyright © 2010 Plex Development Team. All rights reserved.

#

import re, os, os.path

import Media, VideoFiles, Stack, Utils

Look for episodes.

def Scan(path, files, mediaList, subdirs):

Scan for video files.

VideoFiles.Scan(path, files, mediaList, subdirs)

print “Path: X”, path, “Files : X”, files , “X Media : X”, mediaList ,“X Subdirs : X”, subdirs

print “gammel”

myfiles = 1

print myfiles



the variable files contains files" if the directory was never scanned, but once the scann got through the files are empty

is there a way todisable this smart scan habbit ( i guess the scanner should only have to deal with changes, but why are you touching the directotries anymway if you are not listing the files ? )

or is there something that i am doing wrong here ? ( my current workaround creating a subdir or remove it, afterwards my file variable is filled with the current files )

Any help are pretty much welcome

Best Regards

TW

[embeddedcoder]

Couple of possible work arounds for you.

1. Always do a force refresh. ~/Library/Application\ Support/Plex/Plex\ Media\ Server.app/Contents/MacOS/Plex\ Media\ Scanner -sx -c SECTION_NUMBER
   
   
   
2. Write your own VideoFiles.Scan equivalent using os.listdir or os.walk
   
   
   
   I’d go with the first one since you probably don’t want it for anything except debugging.

[thw_100]

Thanks,

will try the first one, because as you guessed i was looking for a debug switch.

is there somewhere a documentation for theses settings and/or functions that comes with pms ?

Best Regards

TW

[embeddedcoder]

Run the same command but with a -h

That’ll give you a full list of options.