[Forego reindexing in folder containing lots of mostly-unchanging files?]

On 2/24/2016 at 0:34 PM, ivarson said:

if files havent changed, their content isnt polled, that would be tedious and would sort of defeat the purpose of having an index.

you can disable filesystem notifications in advanced settings and also increase the scan interval which defaults to 600 secs/10 minutes.

 

or are you talking about re-creating the share? that would require new hashes and would take as much time as the indexing the first share did (if filecount hasnt increased)

Are file changes checked based on modified date or something else?

[Forego reindexing in folder containing lots of mostly-unchanging files?]

I have a folder containing a ton of files (probably over a million), most of which will not change, save maybe because of corruption on the disk.

From what I understand, indexing causes all the contents of all the files to be read. This takes forever.

Is there any way to, say, reindex files only based on their last modified date?

 

Edit: Just realized that wouldn't work, given BTSync is based on the BT protocol.