Large file transfer

ronb · Post by **ronb** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:12 pm

Hi
As a real newby toMM I am praying that I am going to like this.
I have tried so many players/ taggers I was begining to dispair.
I am in the process of transfering some 60000 files to the library.
How long should this take? 6000 so far and 2 hrs. Is this about par?
I used all default settings.
Thanks in advance

Regards

Teknojnky · Post by **Teknojnky** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:37 pm

How you mean transfering to the library?

Are you simply using add/rescan the files in the existing location, or are moving the files somewhere?

As far as speed, its going to be dependant largely on your hard drive speed and cpu/memory.

2 hours seems a bit long to scan 6k files, but it does take a bit longer on the first scan than it does on subsequent scans.

ronb · Post by **ronb** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:43 pm

Hi
Thanks for your reply.
I am transfering simply by add/rescan from my h/d's which are 2 new sata drives.
The cpu is a new p4 3ghz

thanks again for your help

Teknojnky · Post by **Teknojnky** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:20 pm

Some times some bad/corrupted tags cause the scan to hang up. If progress seems to stall completely, it might better to stop and restart.

If you can tell which files might be suspected bad, you could move them out temporarily or rescan smaller folders at a time.

jhsmith · Post by **jhsmith** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:48 pm

I have a 25K collection and took about 30 minutes to scan, I also have sata drives.... hope this helps

pah68 · Post by **pah68** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:57 pm

It also takes considerably longer to scan for duplicate content, but I don't believe this is a default setting.

Scooter · Post by **Scooter** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:33 pm

For scans and conversions, I've had problems with MM hanging up, so I take them in incremental bites. I think I would do 1,000 at a time.

I use wave files, so they are larger and take longer.