[Boyzie]

I'm not a fan of deviding movies either.
But when having a datasource where only the proper scraped movies are moved into, this could make sense.
Usually, you only prepare & scrape a movie ONCE.

Yes, somehow that does not work with me. So, e.g. I would have to rescrape all of the movies when the actor images are properly downloadable. And often I first scrape the TMDB because it seems as if there were more movies found automatically, without intervention, and after I scrape again with IMDB, abouve all to get the ratings.

BUT: new movie folders in datasource root are added first!

So the movie folders containing sub folders with single movies each. I will try the next time.

Then let mediainfo & the rest of the tasks run

It is the program MediaInfo one can download separately?

another trick might be to do not use slow external devices (like USB 2.0 drives or WiFi connection to the NAS).

The movies are stored on external USB 3.0 drives, Seagate Expansion, WD MyBook, Elements so it should not be that slow.

I've got several hundreds of movies on my NAS (via Gigabit LAN) and update data sources takes 31 seconds:

Oops, I count in hours on a Win (10) OS. Unbelevable. Didn't know at all such speeds are possible at all. That does not sound like a Windows machine.