Ability to see live progress of library scan? (Ubuntu server)

[marriedman 59]

I had a major idiot attack and changed the permissions of my entire library. Figured it out the next day when I went to watch something and my library was completely empty! I figured it out and fixed the permissions again, but now the library is only at 94% of my TV shows. It still has all of my movies and music to go through. It's been 2 years since this install and my library has probably doubled in that time since I converted all of my discs to digital media. That being said, it does seem to be taking forever to complete a scan. I am over 24 hours right now.

Here are the library details according to my Reports in the server settings:

• 41,398 Episodes
• 2,294 Movies
• 104 Music Videos
• <100 Home Videos
• 50,315 Songs

Currently, all I can find is the simple progress bar on the Dashboard or the circle with a percentage number on the library. I can go to the logs and see what is happening, but that it static at the time I open the log. I would like to have a terminal open that will show me in real time what is happening.

Does Emby server have this ability?

[Luke 39992]

Hi, that is the live progress but we plan to expand on this in future updates. Thanks.

[Lessaj 293]

You can tail the log to see it probing files, making API calls, generating thumbnail previews, intro detection, etc. Depending on if you store NFO with your media or not will affect how long this rescan takes to complete.

[marriedman 59]

2 hours ago, Lessaj said:

You can tail the log to see it probing files, making API calls, generating thumbnail previews, intro detection, etc. Depending on if you store NFO with your media or not will affect how long this rescan takes to complete.

Glorious! I never knew of the tails command. That is perfect. Thank you very much for the information/solution.

@LukeThis is exactly what I was looking for and I bet it wouldn't be too difficult to make a plugin do the same thing so that it is viewable in the server settings. I'm sure there is something similar for those people stuck on Windows. 

[marriedman 59]

7 hours ago, Lessaj said:

Depending on if you store NFO with your media or not will affect how long this rescan takes to complete.

I got so excited about the solution to my question, I forgot to reply to this portion of your post. I do use NFO files only for my metadata. I don't use any scrapers within Emby, I do all of the tagging, images, and collection/sets in TinyMediaManager. I mostly do this because I like to ensure certain TV show episodes are in the correct linear order (Firefly & Dresden Files come to mind). It also is useful for home videos and music videos that have no data that can be scraped.I just fill in all the info that I want and create some artwork.  File naming and NFO are taken care of.

I started doing this back on Kodi. There were frequent reloads and NFO's made for the fastest scan.