[vbat99]

Hello Rob,

I use MC constantly, and one feature which, if included, would make my life a lot easier is if MC could search and/or refresh on a source by source basis.  I have a large collection, 5500+ movies, 20,000+ episodes in 500+ tv shows, and it takes a long time to search for newly added movies and/or tv shows/episodes, and it also takes a long time to refresh.

I seem to remember that in the past you mentioned that searching/refreshing by source would not be feasible, but that was more than one year ago, and I wonder if the situation has changed at all in order for this to be feasible. 

Before you mentioned to have a separate instance of MC with just the sources I add to regularly, and I do that, but my latest movies source has grown to 1,850 movies, and I only have two tv show root folders, so every day for a search or refresh, all of my tv shows/episodes have to be scanned.

Again, please let me know if this is something you would consider, and if you have any other tips that could help me reduce the scanning times for my large collection.

Thanks!

Bart

EDIT: Rob, since now you have a Root Folder filter, I guess what I am looking for is for the Search and Refresh functions to honor the folder filter.  Is this doable or are the filters only for visualization?

As bobrap has replied already, his suggestions are what is currently available.
But, I have had some thoughts on how to do this quicker, specially for movies.....if we use similar technique as Kodi does. (if option All Movies are in folders, then if folder already exists in database, move on without scanning inside folder).
Also yeah, I could try some sort of Search drop box so a user could to select to search a specific root folder for new movies.

As for TV Series, I'm not sure. I feel maybe a CRC of each season folder and if different scan the season folder. This would mean needing to store the CRC against each folder, but might be an option.
But, One thing that will speed up searching during TV search, is to lock any series that has
a. Ended
b. on Hiatus (ie: series current season has ended, waiting for new season)

I've done the above on my MC for my tv series and when I add new episodes its blazingly quick now.

As for Refresh, there might be some options I can do to speed this up. Currently for Movies, MC drops all movies and scans every root folder for nfo's and adds them as if they are found for the first time.
Why this is, is so all data is refreshed from nfo.
MC could keep the database intact, and if a nfo is found, check if exists already and skip, else add to the database. But then how to know if an nfo has been removed.?? and also it won't update manually added data to the nfo.

Still thinking of what can be done.

If there are any suggestions, I'm open to anyones ideas.