On Jul 4, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Phil Meyer wrote: >> Right now I have downloaded the latest beta. Then I attempted to do a >> new scan but that did not work. Whatever I tried on the settings gui >> nothing happened. Dow anyone know how to run the scanner manually. A >> programm named 'scanner.pl' as stated out in the wiki does not exist. > > My experiences are that: > > 1. The scanner doesn't report progress. You have no idea that a > scan is running, until it finishes, unless you look in task manager > to see if there is another perl task running. Alternatively listen > to your box to hear if the HD is chattering :-)
There's a known issue where if you have SC password-protected, the scanner progress doesn't work. But other than that I haven't seen this issue. Would like to know how to reproduce if it's something other than the password issue. > 2. The scanner is automatically started when you start up with an > empty library (even if you haven't set the correct library path > yet). Coupled with (1) above, if you try to run the scanner, it may > run two in parallel scanner tasks. We plan on changing this. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
