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Do databases work across OS?
YankeeInLondon:
Thanks @wer for the config suggestions ...
--- Quote from: wer on June 12, 2020, 11:41:39 pm ---Your thumbnails are not actually stored in your library. You should double-check exactly where you have them stored.
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Because my NAS is down I'm a bit afraid to open the app until I fix this but ... is this easy to find in the settings?
--- Quote ---If you have the option "Update tags when file info changes" enabled, then when you edit the metadata in your library, MC will try to write those tags to the media files themselves if appropriate. It can go into disk wait while doing so. It might even have to wait for the drives to spin up, if your NAS has idled them. That can take many seconds.
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Where does one find the "Update tags when file info changes" dialog? Also am I right in saying that if this were turned on that it would first write to the database locally (my local hard drive is blazingly fast) and then attempt writing to the files themselves but do this in a "non-blocking" fashion so as to not tie up the user interface?
wer:
--- Quote from: YankeeInLondon on June 13, 2020, 03:33:45 pm ---Because my NAS is down I'm a bit afraid to open the app until I fix this but ... is this easy to find in the settings?
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It depends what you mean by "thumbnails". If you mean Cover Art for Audio, this is specified in File Locations in options. If you mean video thumbnails, they're in the profile\appdata folder on Windows; I'm not sure where the mac version stores them. You might want to do some research.
--- Quote from: YankeeInLondon on June 13, 2020, 03:33:45 pm ---Where does one find the "Update tags when file info changes" dialog?
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The options dialog has a search function. I suggest you use it.
--- Quote from: YankeeInLondon on June 13, 2020, 03:33:45 pm ---Also am I right in saying that if this were turned on that it would first write to the database locally (my local hard drive is blazingly fast) and then attempt writing to the files themselves but do this in a "non-blocking" fashion so as to not tie up the user interface?
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On the Windows version, the app can freeze when in disk wait. I don't know if JRiver has implemented asynchronous non-blocking disk I/O in the Mac version.
You might want to consider reading this article:
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Troubleshooting_Network_and_Slow_Storage
If you're afraid to open MC when your NAS is down, you have probably made some bad settings choices. You might want to consider running with "Run auto-import in background" disabled. And you definitely need to be very careful about enabling the "Fix broken links" option when configuring auto-import, which can be quite dangerous. Before you ask where those options are too, you should read this article:
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Auto-Import
If your NAS is down, and you left MC configured with auto-import enabled and fix broken links turned on, then you are indeed in a pickle, and will need to get your NAS fixed before running MC. Or have a good backup. If you don't know how you had those configured, then to be safe you should not run MC until the storage is back online.
YankeeInLondon:
Good suggestions @wer and I am not someone who relies on forums typically, I just don't know if there are any implications of starting MC when my network storage is either down or in a bad state (as it reporting 100% utilization when it's no where clear to that ... and it agrees with that assessment too). I do have the auto-import feature on (and without the linking because I was unsure what that was). Notably though I wasn't finding the auto-imports to really work reliably (well maybe never) and so I was doing a lot of explicit importing of folders when I brought in new media.
In either event, thanks for all the links, sounds like based on my config I can probably start the program and look around at my config a little.
HaWi:
--- Quote from: YankeeInLondon on June 13, 2020, 03:28:20 pm ---@haWi it appears we have a very similar setup. I have a Synology RS1819 ("plus series" as well). On the off chance this has happened to you I am suddenly not unable to do virtually anything on the Synology as it claims my volume utilization is 100% which makes no sense as I only have a single 10TB volume and it's disk utilization is 44%. CPU and Memory are also very comfortably low. I now have a help desk request in to see how to get my NAS back into a working status.
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Is your volume set up as SHR or RAID5 (not sure you can even do that with a single drive) because that would sacrifice half your capacity for redundancy? Do you do snapshot replication?
YankeeInLondon:
--- Quote from: HaWi on June 13, 2020, 05:30:00 pm ---Is your volume set up as SHR or RAID5 (not sure you can even do that with a single drive) because that would sacrifice half your capacity for redundancy? Do you do snapshot replication?
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I have 4 physical discs running on RAID-6 (all operating under a single logical volume)
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