On Feb 21, 2013, at 15:22 25, Rob Landry wrote:

> We copy an old .wav file from a Windows machine into the dropbox. The file 
> gets swallowed and imported into Rivendell.
> 
> We then open rdlibrary and delete the cart.
> 
> Next, we copy the same file from the same Windows box into the dropbox. 
> It will be ignored.
> 
> However, if I copy the file in the dropbox to  /tmp/bs, then copy /tmp/bs 
> into the dropbox with the same name as the file being ignored, the copy 
> will be imported.
> 
> Weird, huh?

I've seen this behavior elsewhere. It occurs where  the files being referenced 
by the Path Spec are hosted on a Windows system and mounted remotely.  AFAICT, 
it's a bug in the file metadata handling, either in Samba or in Windows itself. 
 Hosting the dropbox on a Linux system should fix it.

Cheers!


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