Rescan doesn't find new media

deckerst / aves

Aves is a gallery and metadata explorer app, built for Android with Flutter.

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Rescan doesn't find new media #839

Closed telrod11 closed 10 months ago

telrod11 commented 10 months ago

Describe the bug Rescan fails to include new media in viewer.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Open Aves
Look for media that was added today and find it isn't there
Hit rescan
Media still not found

Tested my library with a couple other gallery apps (f-stop, memoria, simple gallery) and all show the missing media when set to "Newest", just as I have aves set.

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deckerst commented 10 months ago

Rescan in Aves does not do what you think it does. It's only useful to use that function when a new release of Aves introduces new cataloguing features (like detecting motion photos).

Apps cannot force the system Media Store to rescan media. This is not a thing.

If media is missing in Aves, it can be either:

media is not where you expect (for example you expect a newly downloaded file at the top, but it contains an old date so it's down below),
media files were not moved properly, and the Media Store is not aware about it, so Aves is not either,
the Media Store is aware about these media files, but Aves didn't get the memo. That's possibly a bug like #829 or #760.

telrod11 commented 10 months ago

I'm unsure how other gallery apps I mentioned are able to see these changes, but aves is not.

If aves is WAD, great, but I thought you'd like to know others can do it, and do it very well.

Apologies for bringing it up.

deckerst commented 10 months ago

"WAD"?

As i said, there's possibly a bug in Aves. But other galleries may scan themselves the file system (if they have permission to do so), and bypass the OS media segregation altogether. So the fact that other galleries show something is interesting but can be misleading for diagnostic.

Apologies for bringing it up.

No need. It's good to know that the current way doesn't seem to work in all situations, but i need way more details to act on that kind of reports.

telrod11 commented 10 months ago

WAD Works As Designed

I will report back that aves eventually found the missing media but it took almost 12 hours for that to happen.

Thanks for listening.