I have a pretty big library, and I have some of my libraries broken down into segments (“variety” for late night/SNL type stuff, kids TV for kids shows, and another for everything else, and a similar spli for music concerts, separated from kids movies separated from other movies, and audiobooks sepa…

My movies library alone is 17GB, almost 1600 entries and currently spread across four hard drives. It takes less than a minute to scan when I trigger a full scan. I’d see if you can post in the Windows Server section for some sweet ninja help. The only reason that I could think a scan would take a …

The scanner first checks if a folder has been modified and will only scan within that folder if it has, otherwise it will skip it and move on. So if your files are organized properly into folders, it shouldn’t see any changes to the libraries you didn’t touch, and these should fly right by. If you…

Request to update selected folders within library

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Request to update selected folders within library

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