Difference between "Scan" and Full Scan"

[RigasW]

Hi,

I run Firefly 1586 on SlugOS/BE;

Can someone explain me the difference between a “Scan” and a “Full Scan”?

Thanks in advance,

Rigas

[fizze]

Servus!

Has been discusses a couple of times here already, nevermind though:

A “Scan” only processes changed files (mtime/ ctime)
A “Full Scan” processes all files

For instance: if you change the tag of a file and do a “Scan” the changes will be picked up. However if you delete a file, you need a “Full Scan” for it to be cleansed from firefly.

[RigasW]

Hi Fizze,

thanks for your help.

So I will change my early morning cron job to a full scan (between 4 and 5 nobody is listening, anyway …)

Rigas

[Anonymous]

@RigasW wrote:

So I will change my early morning cron job to a full scan

Just curious: how do you control firefly by cron? I don’t see, for example, a command line option for initiating a scan…

[S80_UK]

@fizze wrote:

However if you delete a file, you need a “Full Scan” for it to be cleansed from firefly.

But… if you are running under Windows, and you delete a file, Firefly may still be able find it unless you also empty the Recycle bin (I have been bitten a couple of times by that one…)

[fizze]

@cbrace wrote:

@RigasW wrote:

So I will change my early morning cron job to a full scan

Just curious: how do you control firefly by cron? I don’t see, for example, a command line option for initiating a scan…

http://forums.fireflymediaserver.org/viewtopic.php?p=8025&highlight=wget+cron#8025

wget is of course available on all platforms.

[RigasW]

I start the following script via my crontab;
in my setup the firefly database and the file-system with the songs are hosted on different slugs;
so I first have to test wether the slug with the songs (called “linksys”) is running; if yes, rescanning can start. If not, rescanning is skipped and just a message is given.

#!/bin/bash

if /bin/ping -c 1 linksys

then

/usr/bin/wget http://x:xxxxx@localhost:3689/xml-rpc?method=rescan&full=1

else

echo "Linksys not running ..."

fi

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