# Syncing with watch folder
**URL:** https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/t/syncing-with-watch-folder/92
**Category:** Decibel
**Created:** [September 8, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/t/syncing-with-watch-folder/92 "2022-09-08T18:47:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@tlance](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/u/tlance)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/t/syncing-with-watch-folder/92/1 "2022-09-08T18:47:56Z")
Why the delay of sometimes over an hour?
If unavoidable can we have a menu bar item for ‘Sync now’ or some such?
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### Author:  [@tlance](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/u/tlance)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2022, 5:12pm UTC](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/t/syncing-with-watch-folder/92/2 "2022-09-09T17:12:39Z")
Been overnight and latest additions to sync folder have not shown up.
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### Author:  [@sbooth](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/u/sbooth)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2022, 2:38pm UTC](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/t/syncing-with-watch-folder/92/3 "2022-09-12T14:38:04Z")
About how many files/folders are in your watch folder? Syncing can be an intensive process (it’s more or less a re-import) so the time taken can vary quite a bit- although overnight seems excessive by most any measure. Generally the file system event processing should start within 3 seconds of the file system change.
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### Author:  [@tlance](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/u/tlance)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2022, 7:13pm UTC](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/t/syncing-with-watch-folder/92/4 "2022-09-12T19:13:03Z")
I should have been more clear. I was writing about it never even starting.
Now, having said that, since the network muckup, the updating has been working although a couple hours at least before beginning. Since the muckup there have been three times needing updates.
I am in the process of digitizing my CD and LP collection, should I live that long. On a good day I’ll rip 6-8 CDs and add them to the synced folder. So, pretty much every day I’m doing a several CDs update/sync. My son-in-law says that his Audirvana update lags, too, but has a button to start scan. It’s a minor PITA as he has to Preferences\>Sync to get to the button. I like my idea written elsewhere to have a menu bar item for forced scanning.
1212 folders with a gazillion subfolders. 1.89 TB total. Do you have plans for Decibel v2 to report library stats?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2022, 7:13pm UTC](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/t/syncing-with-watch-folder/92/5 "2022-10-12T19:13:44Z")
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