Limit of 65000 folders

[simoncn]

If you did not really reach the limit (which would require perhaps 500,000 files in your library), this means you are scanning folders that don't contain any audio files. You should be able to fix this by changing your contentDir settings.

MinimServer removes any folder subtree that does not contain audio files but before it can do this it needs to scan all the way to the bottom of the subtree to make sure no audio fies are there. It sounds like this scan to the bottom of the tree is the cause of the problem you are seeing.

For example, for this folder structure:

folder A
folder A/audio file 1
folder A/folder B
folder A/folder B/folder C
folder A/folder B/folder C/folder D
folder A/folder B/folder C/folder D/folder E

it is possible that E might contain audio files, so MinimServer needs to scan B, C, D and E to make sure. While MinimServer is doing this (for a very large number of subfolders), it could hit the 65000 limit.

After confirming that B, C, D and E don't contain audio files, they are removed from MinimServer's view of the library and no longer count towards the limit.

The fix is arrange your folder structure so that (as far as possible) only folders that contain audio files are included under your contentDir folders.

To see what folders are causing this limit to be reached, set the MinimServer logging level to Verbose before starting the scan. The Verbose setting shows all folders that are being scanned.