Stash-Docs/getting-started/first-steps.md

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Setting Up Content Libraries

1. Open your Stash.
2. Go to Settings > Library and click Add Directory.
3. To change the drive letter/volume, just type it in the field.
   
4. Select the folder containing the content you want to add. It will select the folder and all sub-folders.
5. Click Confirm.

Configuring Scan Options

1. Open your Stash.
2. Go to Settings > Tasks.

Option	Description
Generate previews	Generates video previews which play when hovering over a scene.
Generate animated image previews	Generates animated webp previews. Only required if the Preview Type is set to Animated Image. Requires Generate previews to be enabled.
Generate scrubber sprites	Generates sprites for the scene scrubber.
Generate perceptual hashes	Generates perceptual hashes for scene deduplication and identification.
Generate thumbnails for images	Generates thumbnails for image files.

{:style="counter-reset:none"} 3. Select options you want based on your preferences, but every option increases time the scan will take. 4. You can stop and re-scan it will ignore the files that are already scanned and just scan new or missing files.

Initiating Scan

1. Open your Stash.
2. Go to Settings > Tasks.
3. Click Scan to start scanning for the content from your setup libraries or Selective Scan... if you want to scan a specific location.