Speedup Library Operations

Hi all,

I have pretty big libraries with thousand of elements.

I noticed that every time I trigger some library operation it grabs through all elements. A lot of my video files for instance reside on a NAS which isn't always connected. If, for instance I run a library update or trigger some artwork update XBMC is trying to update every single item which results in a a lot of timeout for the same source.

Would it be possible to skip groups of items which are located on the same source? XBMC would identify that the source isn't available and skip all other elements from the same source?

In my understanding this should speed up things a lot?!

Also if I do a library cleanup all elements which aren't connected would get removed so I need to turn on the NAS every time I would do a cleanup for other sources. I know this is a conceptual question since you couldn't know if the source is completely removed or just temporary off line in this case.

Just some thoughts...

One option would be (if a dev could add it that is) to have an option you can set when adding a source for the library. You select if the source is local or remote storage. That way on a clean up you could have the option to clean local, remote or all sources.

Rich, that is a good idea. If you map SMB, NFS etc drive, then you know it is likely remote and checkbox could be automatically checked to help you configure it correctly