update vs rescan?

Jocke Andersson ajocke at gmail.com
Thu Dec 14 21:07:42 UTC 2006


On Thursday December 14 2006 21:29, Mark Kretschmann wrote:
> 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?

My phone (SE P990i, running UIQ 3.0) has used the terms "Update" and "Full 
update" (in Swedish) in its music player, byt that might confuse even more...

//Firetech



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