update vs rescan?

[Andrew Turner]

You mention putting an update button in the Collection Browser - this
is what was the case until relatively recently. It is also worth
noting that the Incremental Update is what happens for most users
almost every minute when they have "Watch for changes" enabled, and so
the button is only really necessary for people with that disabled.

Having said this, it was confusing to many people for things to
disappear just because they had a certain setting enabled.

Another problem that needs to be taken account of in the wording is to
reassure users that doing a Full Rescan won't lose things like
statistics (something that once worried me back in my days of
n00bness).

Andrew

On 14/12/06, Jocke Andersson <ajocke at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday December 14 2006 22:50, Andrew Turner wrote:
> > 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
>
> I'm aware about the differences, but the current names are confusing. It's an
> improvement to earlier versions where only rescan was available in the
> menu. :)
>
> Anyway, it would be better to make the faster update choice easier to reach,
> if you don't want to move the rescan option to the config dialog, put an
> update button in the collection browser or something similar?
> A better fitting name for rescan might be "Full collection rescan" (emphasize
> on the "Full" part, since it can take a lot longer to finish than "update").
>
> //firetech
>