Gcode re-scanning/analysing on startups

[damianburrin]

What is the problem?

when you ftp gcode into the upload folder it does an analysis of each file. However it seems to completely re-scan them again after every restart. This is causing restarts to take a significant time and causing laggy responses when first access the web ui after a restart

What did you already try to solve it?

I've looked through the logs and identified it is rescanning the files after each restart. I've looked through the config for a setting to stop this but can't find one

octoprint-systeminfo-20211102185311.zip (19.4 KB)

Systeminfo Bundle

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Additional information about your setup

latest 1.7.1 fresh install
pi 3b

log snip

[kantlivelong]

You should be uploading to watch and not upload. If the files on the local filesystem don't match up with the metadata a full scan is run. IIRC

[damianburrin]

You should be uploading to watch and not upload

What do you mean?

meta data

Yes thats what i thought so i deleted tbe meta data file let it rescan ovet night tnen rebooted and it starts the scan again.

The reason ive ftp'd a loaf of files is i had to reinstall octoprobt as it kept dailing to update from 1.6 due to me still having py2. Went for fresh intstall and just copied tje gcode files back over

[kantlivelong]

@damianburrin

What do you mean?

You can change these paths in settings.
https://docs.octoprint.org/en/master/configuration/config_yaml.html#folder

• What path do you currently have set for uploads?
• Can you run ls -la /path/to/uploads and come back with the result. (Obviously use the path discovered above)

[damianburrin]

My path for uploads is /home/pi/.octoprint/uploads

I've not changed these from the standard setting

This is the result of the listing using al to show the hidden meta file

I put my gcode in the upload folder as that's where they were on the old build. what's the watched folder for?

[kantlivelong]

The output there looks cut off.

The watched directory has been there for a while. It's specifically for uploading outside of OctoPrint/OctoPrint API. Once a file is placed there OctoPrint will detect, analyze, and move to uploads.

[damianburrin]

Yes i've just read that in the doc link you sent me. Thank you. I'm going to delete all my uploads and then re-ftp into the watched folder and let it scan and move over. It's been a while since i manually transferred anything over as i normally upload directly via cura.

Thank you for your help - I'll mark as solved if this fixes it

[damianburrin]

Yep seems much better this time. It's still scanning odd files on reboot but not everyone