update vs rescan?

[Andrew Turner]

A quick explanation:

The collection scanner has two modes of operation:
Full scan ("Rescan Collection") - it looks at every file in the
Collection Folders specified;
Incremental Update ("Update Collection") - it only examines new
directories or directories with a newer mtime than last time it
scanned.

There are times where "Update Collection" isn't enough. For example, I
find that if I use Azureus to download music into a folder in one of
my Collection Folders, the mtimes of none of the directories are
updated when the files are complete (so Amarok never bothers to scan
the completed files). Another situation could be if Amarok just gets
confused (it can happen).

Hope that helps,
Andrew

On 14/12/06, Jocke Andersson <ajocke at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday December 14 2006 22:13, Ljubomir Simin wrote:
> > I thought it was so, but I wasn't sure, and there's no tooltip to clear
> > doubts up. But another question: are both options really needed under
> > 'tools' menu? Can't 'rescan' be moved somewhere deeper (i.e. to collection
> > setup dialog)?
>
> Back to my phone, that's exactly what they have done. An easy to reach "Update
> collection" choice in the tools menu, and a "Fully rescan collection" in the
> config dialog. That would be the best solution IMHO too.
>
> //Firetech
> _______________________________________________
> Amarok mailing list
> Amarok at kde.org
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok
>