[takoi]

Thanks, I've added global 'force global scan'. But won't this be way more time-consuming, if all my sources are scanned completely each time I add something in one of the sources? What exactly changes in KODI/v14 that will sort this out ? Will I be able to by-pass this problem if I place all my episodes in \\HS\SERIES\<show> folder, instead of using dedicated 'season.xx' folders underneath \\HS\SERIES\<show> ? If so I think I would rather do so to avoid more resources being dragged on the scanning (hence my question below, my box is running on very high CPU usage already)

Well yeah. Xbmc will scan your 4 folders instead of just 1. But only when scanning; cpu used by watchdog will be the same. If you want technical details see PR5343. And yes, if you loose the "season x" folders you will by-pass the problem.

I have another question that is not related to this: I completely understand WatchDog is an XBMC add-on, however I'm wondering if it would be an insane amount of work to create a Windows-based stand-alone edition of WatchDog? Why I'm asking is explained more detailed in this thread I created: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=204405

Basically those of us using a Windows based storage system is currently forced to run complete version of XBMC to update mySQL library, which drags much more system resources than needed and is tricky to maintain. Having a stand-alone library updater similar to WatchDog would benefit everyone using a Windows based system for storage only. Such a tool is already available on various NAS boxes.

I don't have any interest in this myself, but if you find someone who is, it should be perfectly doable to modify watchdog to run standalone. It's "only" a matter of removing the xbmc specific parts. Most of it is already independent of xbmc and cross platform. What existing non-windows tools are you talking about btw? Just curious