I have a lot of files that I see are on StashDB but don’t match when I go to identify them. Any suggestions on how to address this?
First suggestions is to ensure your scenes have perceptual hashes, because that’s how Stash queries StashDB for a match. Either ensure “generate perceptual hashes” is toggled on when scanning, or go to the “generate” section and toggle on “perceptual hashes.”
Next, it’s recommended to use the “tagger” view for identifying scenes, because it allows greater control from the user. You can select this on the scene page and either “scrape all” or “scrape by fragment.” That method will query with the perceptual hash. Alternatively, if that yields no results, you can try the “search” button with part of the title.
Hopefully that gets you moving in the right direction. Feel free to ask any clarifying questions, we’re all happy to help.
I’ve got both enabled, but thank you. If I re-download the same file, it works correctly, but that’s not really an option for all the ones I’m missing. Is there any option to “force” a new hash on the existing file?
I believe if you toggle on “overwrite existing files” in the generate section, then re-generate again with the “perceptual hashes” checked, it should give you new ones. I’m not 100% sure though.
Alternatively, you could delete the affected scenes from Stash, ensuring that the checkbox to delete the file is NOT checked, and then re-scan with the “perceptual hash” option toggled on.
I found the problem. Apparently a bunch of files got corrupted when I had a drive fail in my RAID setup and those are the ones that won’t identify correctly. I’ll have to re-download what I can and just purge the rest. Thanks for all the help
Sorry that happened, best of luck!