My library will constantly update if I am connected to my synology drives within finder. The only way it stops is if I go and disconnect the network drives within finder. I have updated to the latest server version (64 bit) and am using a 918+ with 4 WD 8TB red drives with double redundancy. The behavior is that it will scan for a few seconds, finish the scan and wait a few seconds and then scans it again.
I have gone through a painstaking process of renaming every single media file to be consistent as well as removing all extraneous files that don’t serve a purpose. All that is left is actual movie files and srt subtitle files. I have logs available if needed to troubleshoot. Thank you in advance for the help.
I did use Filebot - and since I am a novice tech-head I bought the mac version. My files are name with the following scheme: {n} - {y} ({vf {vc}) - so Avatar - 2009 (1080p x265). The folders are just named with the name and year so Avatar - 2009.
Naming structure for TV is {n} - {S00E00} - {t}, so Firefly - S01E01 - Serenity
Correct that I am using my iMac to manage the file folders, but just that the synology has a connection to a computer should not trigger a scan every 2 seconds, imo.
Oh boy - let’s start the renaming of over 1000 movies…
Thank you for the diagnosis. I’ll start on that and get back here and report when it’s done. Can you tell me why there’s two of the same formats in your “should be”? It repeats after the “/” - also I don’t need the last parenthesis before the last bracket, right and there should be a close bracket after the “f”, right?
Given how filebot works, I can rename 700+ movies in a few minutes over the LAN. With everything matched and names good, It should be able to drop 50-100 at a time, spin a second to verify , then boom., done
Thank you for catching my typo! I’ve corrected the post.
I finished up with renaming everything (it wasn’t a nightmare like I had imagined) and waited for it to update everything in the library and for it to download everything - but it still basically continuously scans - one right after another.
Apparently, some software on your Mac is changing your media folders continuously, thus triggering a library update.
I’d look for anti virus or some search indexer.
I know about disabling automatic library updates - but I’d really like to avoid that if possible. I figured that it might show up in the logs and we could spot the culprit, but I’m not all that knowledgeable.
When enabling view hidden files, I see one hidden file but it is outside of the movie folder structure. It’s called .apdisk but its at the same level as the movies folder in the hierarchy.
I don’t see them - I may have already deleted them when I tried to fix this a few weeks back before going through the Filebot process. I also stopped the Plex package from synology and restarted it before doing everything.
Ah the magical reboot for the settings to take effect. Looks to be resolved now. Thanks all for the help in diagnosing and fixing this. Much appreciated.
