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I installed Kodi today. When I first triggered a scrape after configuring my Movies source (I use "The Movie Database Python") I could see KODI running through a list of stuff in the upper right corner of the screen. This has been a while and nothing is shown there anymore. But when I navigate to the Movie list and open the display option in the menu after a heading "Actions" I see "Stop scanning". What is that? Is this the scrape process or something else?
I have Kodi 21.1.0 (fresh install on a FireTV stick).
(Btw. I did check the Wiki and the FAQ but this doesn't seem to be covered.)
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2024-10-11, 17:34
(This post was last modified: 2024-10-11, 22:26 by Hitcher. Edited 1 time in total.)
If you see stop scanning then it means the scan is still running.
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I'll add my take on this issue, as it's been something annoying for many years now (for me at least).
Length of scanning/indexing a library varies depending on many things. If there's a library of 1000 movies and 10000 eps and Kodi runs on a PC and the media, with nfo files, is local or on a NAS nearby linked by 1Gb network or faster it's gonna be a mater of minutes. If the same library is scanned on an Android box, over wifi, with the database pointing to Mariadb, on a different server, and the scrapers searching online for everything, one should let it run overnight. These are my (anecdotal) extremes, both good and bad.
But the finer point is that the window showing the scanning progress should remain where it is, no matter how slow and how long the operations takes. And it doesn't. Do anything else with Kodi while scanning is going on - maneuver through media sections, look at the info of an item (press I), play something, or, God forbid, change the skins settings - and that window disappears. Push Kodi to do 2 things at the same time and it doesn't matter on what platform it's running, chances are high that scanning status window will disappear/lose focus and never return. And then stuff happens like the OP says - go to the same category of media and see "stop scanning", cause it's still ongoing in the background. Try to refresh the info of any other item - can't, cause scanning is still ongoing for that old category of media where it was trigger 30 min ago, etc, etc. Maybe (the visual cue of) this operation could be made more robust?
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Thank you all for replies! First of all: KODI was hung. After a restart I could verify that this "scanning" here is indeed the "scraping". Probably obvious for all but me. Such a basic question simply because of the different terms ...
After the restart the scanning actually stops after a while and it produces results.
Btw. I agree with user Daydream that probably it would be good to keep the scanning / scraping window open when the process actually is working. Maybe there can ba a feature flag for this in the setting?
