Directory scan aborted

> I've recently re-ripped all of my CDs and transferred the old library
> files to a new external USB SSD on my LMS v7.9.1 running on Windows XP.
> I chose to clear and rescan everything, and the scan starts runs for
> less than a minute and reports 'scan aborted unexpectedly. Can anyone
> point me to what may be the issue?

I'm not even sure I should even give any advice beyond "get your system
up to date)... :-)

But anyway: Go to Settings/Advanced/Logging, enable logging for the
scanner (from the dropdown box at the top), then re-run the scan and
provide the full resulting scanner.log.

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Michael