Plex Media Scanner (CLI) --refresh does not support file or directory?!

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I tested some commands and finally it seems that --refresh ignores the --file and --directory command as all commands were active for hours until I killed them:

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Is this correct? If yes, shouldn’t Plex Media Scanner throw an error, instead of doing a full refresh multiple times in parallel?

P.S. Using “–refresh --item 123” is fast, so this seems to work

EDIT: It seems “–scan” has the same problem. It does a full scan altough I tested --item, --file and --directory?! The only option that seems to work is --section.

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to do a directory you need to specify the section as well. you can’t scan an individual file need to scan the directory it is in.

--scan --section 1 --directory /mnt/…

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Ok, but shouldn’t the scanner return an error instead of doing a full scan as I passed the wrong arguments?

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