Re: Add pre-scan task?

> About file paths: what's the safest way (considering escaping, special
> chars, different OS peculiarities...) in Perl to get the *relative* path
> of -local- files from the database file urls. So from
> "file:///some/media/dir/artist/album/file.ext" to
> "artist/album/file.ext".
> Would you use -File::Spec- or -Path::Class- or something else? Ideally,
> my backup would store relative paths. Then if users change the media dir
> it would still be valid.

TBH: I don't know off the top of my head. I would have suggested looking 
into Path::Class, which has some methods to work with children, relative 
paths etc.

> But if users have > 1 media dir the plugin would have to test the
> relative file paths from the old backup with each currently valid media
> dir. If you're dealing with 1000s of urls, what's the fastest way to
> check if a file url is valid, i.e. that the file at that url exists?

-f path/to/file

I wouldn't know of any faster way, because you'll have to read the 
filesystem info at some point anyway.