Automatic monitor by Category

[ColinM]

The objective is to assist users with a large number of downloads in transferring to jDownloads or when making upgrade to between different Joomla series.

The suggestion is that when Automatic Monitoring is disabled the the category listing could show a button that would initiate monitoring for that category only.  Apparently it was available in the 1.9.x series

Presently the User could upload a 'few' files, say 200 or so, and then click on 'Check Downloads area now' on the status section of the jD Control Panel, which is a bit more laborious.

Colin

[Arno]

Hi Colin,
i know that the current scan script is not perfect when users have many thousands files.

We must here find a way to prevent the timeout problem.
Also the single category check is here only a temporary solution and not perfect.

Maybe should we use a few new options here:
1) Shall be checked the file existence? Yes/No
- default = Yes. This is the currently used method
- when No, is only searched new folders and Files

2) Amount of files which shall be added in every checking part?
- default value = 250 (0=no limits)

- with the second option would it be possible, to start the scan script with a get parameter and restart it again when the limit is reached.
- but i must rethink this a little bit more... 

[ColinM]

Arno
Yes it is a challenge.  Like idea of extra parameters.  The use of selecting one category at a time is a short term stop gap.

As an additional idea how about adding date & time range. If the database held date of last scan then the default would be say date/time of last scan to now. 
Another wild thought is doing like Akeeba and 'calibrating' the system to see how long it takes to scan say 100 files, or keep scanning same file and count how many times before time out?
Colin