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10.10.2007 01:16:01

Remote Buddy makes direct use of Carbon filesystem calls - which is 
the fastest way to do filesystem operations on OS X. I've written a 
complete abstraction layer for the filesystem for Picture Arena, that 
is now also used in Remote Buddy, that optimizes and caches filesystem 
accesses.

The more I'm surprised the scan is taking that long for you, as a 
simple scan of a few directories clearly should hardly be noticable.

How many direct subfolders does your DVD folder contain? 
And how many of them contain non-VIDEO_TS-structured data?

Caching the search result is not difficult at all - however, automatic 
change tracking is. At least in Tiger and assuming a completely free 
layout. And in Leopard it's no longer required as - and that's what 
Apple officially says on their website - Spotlight is a lot faster 
and also works on your network volumes.

Best regards, 
Felix