update vs rescan?

Mark Kretschmann markey at web.de
Thu Dec 14 20:29:16 UTC 2006


On Thursday 14 December 2006 21:17, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> Update does an incremental scan, scanning only directories with
> new/removed files (or changed filenames).  Rescan does a full rescan
> of your entire collection.
>
> Quoting Ljubomir Simin <ljubomir.simin at gmail.com>:
> >
> > What is the difference between "update collection" and "rescan
> > collection" in the tools menu?

We've tried hard to come up with descriptive names for these, it ain't easy. 
Any better ideas?

-- 
Mark



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