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kovidgoyal · 01-01-2016, 05:14 AM

I'm afraid not. There is no way to make "resetting file attributes" robust across OSes and filesystems. It's up to you to make sure file attributes for files you put there are correct.

Simply have your batch file create and delete a temporary file in the auto-add folder, that should be enough to trigger a rescan. Or do a file rename to a new filename, though whether that is sufficient or not will depend on the file watching semantics of Qt on your platform.

01-01-2016, 05:14 AM	#7
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,464 Karma: 27757440 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	I'm afraid not. There is no way to make "resetting file attributes" robust across OSes and filesystems. It's up to you to make sure file attributes for files you put there are correct. Simply have your batch file create and delete a temporary file in the auto-add folder, that should be enough to trigger a rescan. Or do a file rename to a new filename, though whether that is sufficient or not will depend on the file watching semantics of Qt on your platform. Last edited by kovidgoyal; 01-01-2016 at 05:31 AM.