Loading Up My Catalogue

[simoncn]

(16-05-2015 12:24)JazzDoc Wrote:  In answer to your question Simon ... Lots! I guess I have around 6000 albums on 4 external 2TB USB drives connected to my PC via USB hub. Connection is USB2.

Anton ... When I set 'startupscan' to Full, the MinimServer icon turned red and I got an error message telling me that the syntax was not right. I can use both true and false but not full. When I use false, it doesn't seem to make any difference. Maybe this is the downside of using dated USB2 external drives?

You need to set startupScan to 'full', not 'Full'.

If startupScan is set to 'false', MinimServer will not read any files from your library when it is started. It will read the metadata from its cache file instead (assuming that the cache file exists from a previous scan). On Windows, the cache file is located in the C:\Users\your-user-name\AppData\Roaming\MinimServer\data folder which is presumably on a local disk with fast access.

I would be extremely surprised if it is taking MinimServer 10-15 minutes to read the metadata for 6000 albums from a local cache file.