Full vs incremental scan in MinimServer2.1

[simoncn]

Thanks for sending the log. There is something a bit strange there. MinimServer is scanning from 09:53 to 10:10, then nothing is happening from 10:10 to 10:29, then the scanning continues and completes at 10:44. Was the Mac asleep (power save) for these 19 minutes?

Even without this gap of 19 minutes, the scan has taken 32 minutes. The is not caused by MinimServer doing a full scan of your library and reading files that have not changed. It is caused by the overheads of scanning the library files across the network using SMB and checking whether each file has been modified since the last scan.

To solve this problem, you should uninstall MinimServer from your Mac and install MinimWatch instead. MinimWatch provides an icon in the Mac menu bar with all the same options as the MinimServer icon including Rescan. When you do Rescan from the MinimWatch icon, the scanning happens on the QNAP and will be much faster because it is reading local files with no network overheads involved.