From 1af10ded74f645fae1b368381190d88160332d2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vietbao Tran <46217210+TapuCosmo@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2025 19:33:24 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix: wait for watched files to finish being written (#17100)
 (#21180)

This makes the external library watcher wait for files in watched directories to finish being written before queuing jobs for each file.
---
 server/src/services/library.service.ts | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/server/src/services/library.service.ts b/server/src/services/library.service.ts
index 4c96ad0062..c5f6971a83 100644
--- a/server/src/services/library.service.ts
+++ b/server/src/services/library.service.ts
@@ -123,6 +123,10 @@ export class LibraryService extends BaseService {
       {
         usePolling: false,
         ignoreInitial: true,
+        awaitWriteFinish: {
+          stabilityThreshold: 5000,
+          pollInterval: 1000,
+        },
       },
       {
         onReady: () => _resolve(),