# Admin Dashboard The dashboard at `/admin` is the admin landing page: a four-number health check, the file-watcher status, and the place where library-wide scans are launched and watched. ## The stats grid Four counts, straight from the database, refreshed on every page load: | Card | What the number counts | | --- | --- | | **Libraries** | Every library — book, comic, audiobook, and podcast libraries alike | | **Books** | Every item across all of them: books, comics, audiobooks, and podcast episodes | | **Users** | Every account on the instance | | **Devices** | Every registered sync device (Android, KOReader, Kobo) | These are instance-wide totals — they don't filter by what any individual user can see. ## File Watcher The **File Watcher** card shows how many libraries are currently under live watch for file changes. The watcher exists when **Auto-Scan** is enabled on the Settings page; the number updates on page load. - Watching **0** libraries usually means auto-scan is off — turn it on in [Settings](settings.md) → Scanning, and the watcher arms on the next server start. - Watched libraries get shallow scans as files change, plus a periodic poll on the scan interval — see [Scanning](scanning.md) for exactly what those do. ## Quick Actions ### Force Rescan All Libraries The big one. This is a **force rescan of every library**: each file is re-read and re-extracted with the scanner's current parsing, and hash identifiers are recomputed — nothing unchanged is skipped. Use it as the backfill tool after mass edits or scanner improvements; don't use it as a routine refresh (that's what the watcher and [per-library scans](scanning.md) are for, which skip unchanged files). Mechanically it starts **one scan job per library** and reports per library: started, or skipped because that library already had a scan running (only one scan per library can run at a time). ### Manage Libraries A shortcut to [Libraries](libraries.md), where folders, access, and per-library scans live. ## The Scanning panel Whenever scans are running, a **Scanning Libraries** panel appears with a live progress row per library (progress bar, current file counts, and a per-library cancel button), plus: - **Cancel all scans** — stops every queued or running scan job - The close button — hides the panel; scans keep running without it The panel appears for any scan — the dashboard's own force rescan, or one started from the Libraries page. Progress updates live while the page is open; the jobs themselves run on the server either way.