Thanks for the quick response. In researching this I had relied initially on this Plex Article which still shows --file. And when I used a section id with --file ran into “Error: Cannot select file and something else.” Which led me to this forum post which seemed to indicate that the cause of my error was including section. However, if I had done --help for the scanner it now no longer displays the --file option. Although, given that I have 29 libraries and 10s of thousands of items I really doubt my errant use of “–file” was scanning all my libraries. Also note, the errant command did update the library and metadata. In any event, I will only use --section and --directory going forward.
As to your suggestion that I use both --scan and --refresh, I had not been using --refresh because I didn’t want update the metadata for entries in the directory which already have metadata. I only want metadata to be retrieved for entries without metadata. Am I misconstruing the use of --refresh when invoking the scanner with a section id and --directory? Also, could you clarify the use of --force and the difference between --refresh with and without --force?
Thank you.
