Author Topic: PM6 build 7285 contact not auto rescanning when using live ingest, no option to.  (Read 650 times)

Offline Sammorgan02

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As per this help article:
https://camerabits.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/48001145135-contact-sheet-preferences

I do not have the option to automatically rescan when folder contents changes.  It is just not listed.

My contact sheets are not automatically rescanning when using live ingest (a feature that changes folder contents and MAYBE reports to photo mechanic that folder contents were changed - I'm not sure).

Was this feature removed?  Does the help doc need to be updated?

I'd like to shoot tethered and have new images appear in the contact sheet automatically.

Windows 11.

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And to note, if I hit / to manually rescan the thumbnails show up.  I just want it to happen automatically and I have been unable to do so.  Rescan on resume (but on resume isn't really the relevant function.  Honestly I'm not 100% sure what on resume means heh).

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"Resume" in 'Rescan on Resume' means "switch back to Photo Mechanic from another application". This is somewhat relevant, as, if you have this feature enabled, switching back to Photo Mechanic while a Live Ingest is running should force it to rescan the Contact Sheet in the same way that the / key does.

'Automatically rescan when folder contents change' is a setting that has only ever existed on MacOS. The setting has been removed, because it relied upon an API that Apple deprecated years ago, so yes, the document does need to be updated, but it never existed on Windows. This setting is not particularly relevant to Live Ingest, not only because it doesn't exist on Windows, but because it was meant to see changes that other programs were making to folders that are open as Contact Sheets, nothing to do with Live Ingest. Yes, Photo Mechanic does know about the changes that it is making to files and folders that it is currently working with.

As far as the actual issue, I've just tested this with Windows 11 and the build that you have stated you are using and I am not experiencing the issue as you've described it. Probably best if you send us an email (support@camerabits.com) and I can give you instructions on how to enable some additional logging that might tell us more about the issue.