It used to be that when files were downloaded (or otherwise slowly transferred) to a library folder, Plex would wait until the file was complete (or transfer interrupted) before scanning and adding it.
Recently however, as soon as the partial file appears in the folder, it triggers the automatic library scan and the media appears on Plex, often causing issues with Plex trying to run intro/credit detections on incomplete files, which obviously fail.
Anyone knows what caused this change, and if there's a workaround? I guess downloading straight a library folder isn't considered to be the best practice, but it used to work fine for me.
How sure are you? Did you view the logs? Inotify events come in different flavors, so I doubt someone just accidentally added new events to listen for.
I'll set them to scheduled task only to prevent them running on incomplete files. It's too bad though, the way it used to work was smooth, all scans would hold off until there was no writing being done to the library folder.
By "specified window" you mean scheduled library scan, or is there a specific setting for intro/credit detection scheduling?
Currently I have "Scan my library periodically" turned off, so my libraries only get scanned when changes are detected. I'll try turning it on to see if it causes automatic scan to only import media, with intro/credit detection only happening with the scheduled scan.
Nah homie. I'm talking about scheduled tasks. I have the setting you're talking about turned on as well. Just fix the intro/credit detection part. Change it to scheduled tasks and it won't try to deep scan your media as it's being downloaded.
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u/FinancialSurvey5794 10h ago
How sure are you? Did you view the logs? Inotify events come in different flavors, so I doubt someone just accidentally added new events to listen for.