Initial media scan taking a very long time

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Did you enable chapter image extraction and trickplay right off the bat? Both of these will SIGNIFICANTLY slow down the initial scan.

Derp. Should've read all the way to the end. Gimme a sec to go back and re-read.

Okay -- could still be trickplay. Double check on this one. Also, any extra plugins enabled?

What might be the reason that there's large swaths of seeming-inactivity in-between commands?

Well, you have IO errors that are causing this. Any idea what else could be using the files in question? There are quite a few of them:

Code:

[20:53:34] [ERR] [18] MediaBrowser.Providers.Manager.ProviderManager: IOException saving to /config/metadata/People/J/John Sanford/folder.jpg. Will retry saving to /config/metadata/library/14/1407e979a5adc9209791c1d8b06914ab/folder.jpg
System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file '/config/metadata/People/J/John Sanford/folder.jpg' because it is being used by another process.