[TYPO3-dam] dam and ftp

[Stephan Petzl]

Stephan Petzl wrote:
> hello,
> 
> is there still no other way to index external uploaded files than using 
> a cron job? it would be great to have just a button which triggers 
> indexing.
> 
> BR Stephan

Actually it seams like there IS a option for manual indexing:
"Check index
This checks the index for changed or missing files and updates the index 
accordingly. "

But it only checks the files which were uploaded with the DAM uploader. 
The files uploaded with FTP are ignored.

Why?

BR Stephan