I have 3TB attached including all of the digital photos I've taken in the last 10 years as well as a bunch of large HD TiVo movies and had about 50,000 items as well. I set everything to "never" when Samba stopped working and rebooted. It seems to be working fine now. I don't think the scanning is worth the extra overhead. FYI I have a DockStar.

The scan basically creates the database entries for each one of your files, and marks images and video for thumbnail creation and transcode. Personally I wouldn't turn off the scan because the My Media and Show My Files depend on it for searching.

The pending items are all those that need to scanned, thumbnail (images and video) creation and video transcoding. Images will thumbnail reasonably quickly, and video transcode will take a pretty sizable amount of time.

The reason the queue grows is that as the scan progresses it finds more things to do - I've had drives with several hundred gigs require several days to finish doing their thing (hundreds of thousands of files).

That said, we have introduced some new options in the web ui to give you a little more control over the process - check out the release notes (http://pogoplug.com/downloads/web_relnotes.html - I've also copied them below

v2.0.1
We've added the following new features to the website in this point release:

Media Settings
In Media Options, Allow Pogoplug Enabled Device to optimize videos for playback, you now have three options:
* Never - The Pogoplug Enabled Device will play the original video file and will generate neither web-optimized 10 second preview nor the web-optimzed full video.
* Auto-Generate Preview - The Pogoplug Enabled Device will create a web-optimized 10 second preview of each movie. If you preview the 10 second preview the Pogoplug Enabled Device will queue the full video to be web-optimized.
* Auto-Generate Full Transcode - The Pogoplug Enabled Device will create a web-optimized version of the full video.

Media Settings
We've added a new link "Click here to see videos eligible for a full-transcode". The dialog box that pops up will allow you to select any or all of your videos to be fully transcoded to the web optimized version. Prior to this, previewing the short transcode (10 seconds of video) by clicking the magnifying glass to play your video or hovering over the video to play in thumbnail view were the only ways to trigger the whole file to be optimized.

My Media / Show My Files
Both of these searches will now by default NOT search your shared folders. If you click the new share icon (Include files that are shared with me) next to My Media and Show My Files it will turn green, and content shared to you will be included in your search results.

Bug Fixes
These bugs are fixed in this release:
* Bug 1286 - Viewing the short preview of a clip that is currently being transcoded restarts the process from 0%
* Bug 1294 - Switching to List view while in My Music / Albums takes you to the My Music / Songs

Known Issues
These are known issues with the Web App that have not been addressed in this release:

* Bug 1203 - Shared photos from a directory do not show up in photos filter
* Bug 1210 - MP3 file with corrupt AlbumArt will not playback through the webapp
* Bug 1287 - Transcode queue will not show 2nd file if it was added while a current file is being transcoded

hope that helps!
J

I re-enabled scanning for thumbnails, but once again WFS stopped working. I disabled it and rebooted, and all is fine again.

I recently got my Pogoplug V2 (pink) and love it. One thing I would like to know why is the light in the front is constantly blinking for the last 3 days or so. Is this becuade it is creating those thumnails etc. I've openpgo installed on a USD drive and uploaded about 80GB of photo's and videos. Your feedback is appreciated.

Several hours later and this seems to be working for me. I am now counting down the list of 52k+ items pending and generating meta data.

IDK Brandon. Last I check I was scanning again, but I had made some progress.

and I thought I would make one last post as it looks like I am again processing the data. 191k+ items, but it looks like the process is working.

@Rhoadrunner - have you tried setting all the Media settings to "Never"? If you click the "settings" link next to your Pogoplug name in the Media Settings Tab you should get a dialog box called "Media Processing Options", with three toggles for each attached drive:
Allow Pogoplug to optimize videos for playback:
Allow Pogoplug to process media meta-data:
Allow Pogoplug to generate thumbnails:
set them all to never and the Pogoplug will still scan, but should no longer process those files. The scan takes a lot less time and should be less of an interference with people trying to access the files.

Hope that's helpful!

I did that 45 minutes ago... and I'm still getting the message about Media stuff is being processed and the system will be slow... which it is. There really needs to be a way to cancel that, even if you DO want it to happen eventually. There are times that you must use the drives at full speed without the processing killing it.

I plugged a 1TB WD MyBook HD i nthe Pogoplug. I unchecked everything in the media settings, even the 'use HTML5' checkboxes because I never use the web interface. I only use the option zo have the pogoplugged devices show up like other hard drives in my Finder.
I have 500GB of pictures, movies and documents (backup files) on my WD MyBook HD and even if I unchecked all the options it's now scanning since three days. But everytime I check, it tells me that it's only scanning for 15 hours or so. Does scanning restarts after finishing?
I'm a little bit disappointed. Any help?
Thanks