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How large is the directory you're having trouble with? Can you run filebot on a smaller set of files, to see if it's the number of files, or maybe some single individual file somewhere, or something else to see if we narrow down why it's running slowly in this particular case?
I'm getting mixed results. Sometimes it scans and sometimes it doesn't. It never finishes though. The directory is large so I did try individual files and sometimes that works but not always which is even more confusing. I've been trying to narrow it down but the results fluctuate.