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File Scanner Improvements II

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CAD:
Hi buah,
glad you understand what I am getting at. :D


--- Quote ---To be honest, CAD, I do not think such a functionality of detecting changed labels, but same paths will be available any time soon as I really can't imagine many users having such situations and you could just have changed the label (not switched hard drives) and the whole thing only to update one field (not a critical one)...
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Hi Nostra,
I was going to say that users could rename the volume label, and paths would remain the same.
their databse would then have an incorrect volume label.

Also (as rick hinted) it would be great if all fields (that can be read from the stored media - eg video codecs etc) are updated as part the path chage detection. For me the Media label (volume label) is most important, but I can see how it would be useful to update other fields.


--- Quote ---It's possible to reserve a drive letter for each drive used. I don't have need for it, but it seems USB Drive Letter Manager is the tool to use.
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Yes - I can force pvd to recognise movies have changed path, but the change path scan does not update "media label field" which I would like to use to know which HD a particular movie is on.


--- Quote ---you should be able to change those volume labels using Re-read file information
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I will try this....when I find it (when i get home) may be easy solution.
Just tried it - and it updates volume label, should be a good work around.  :D

buah:

--- Quote from: rick.ca on August 17, 2010, 02:40:03 am ---It's possible to reserve a drive letter for each drive used.

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This is exactly what I do, and what I intended to write about. I always assigns drives as follows:

C: Windows and Program Files drive
D: My Documents, Backup and pagefile.sys drive
E:-N: External and/or other internal mass storage drives
P:-T: USB stick drives
U:-Z: Optical and/or virtual drives.
 
Disc Management console does this job perfectly for me.

What I concluded was that you either used automatic assigning first available drive letter, or you purposely assigned same letter. If first, then you should reserve drive letter for each external HDD, and if second, you have a problem when both attached at the same time - one of them wouldn't recognized by Windows.


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--- Quote from: rick ---It's possible to reserve a drive letter for each drive used.
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Yes - I can force pvd to recognise movies have changed path, but the change path scan does not update "media label field" which I would like to use to know which HD a particular movie is on.
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Now, I'm confused again. If you reserve different letter for each drive, it implies path changing, so scanning as I described earlier overwrites Media label field? But, this was rather rhetorical, you don't have to reply on this.

CAD:
tested reread file information on my main database and seems to do the job with no ill effects.
A bit more convoluted but a good solution.

I use disk management console extensively - my partitions are mounted as sub-directories under c:


--- Quote ---Now, I'm confused again. If you reserve different letter for each drive, it implies path changing, so scanning as I described earlier overwrites Media label field? But, this was rather rhetorical, you don't have to reply on this.
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You are correct that selecting add movie will overwrite media label field, but it also redownloads everything (unless I missed something).
This thread got a bit sidetracked with our two needs.

My original request was for "scan new folders" to also update media label field (which I'm hoping Nostra will still consider) :)
Rick rightly suggested all these media related fields could be updated.(which I'm hoping Nostra will still consider) :)
A step further that would cover all contingencies (and got a bit lost in translation) would be to detect path change OR media label change and update media related fields  (which I'm hoping Nostra will still consider) :) - but he probably wont :(

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