html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,issue,performed_via_github_app
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1380#issuecomment-953334718,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1380,953334718,IC_kwDOBm6k_c440ru-,813732,2021-10-27T21:45:04Z,2021-10-27T21:45:04Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"I am also getting this issue, using the currently most recent version of datasette

```
$ datasette --version
datasette, version 0.59.1
```

If I run `datasette` within just a folder of files, 

```
$ datasette serve .
```

Adding new files while datasette is running shows no new files, and removing files causes datasette to return 500 errors. 


```
home
Error 500
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'mydatabase.db'
Powered by Datasette
```
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https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1380#issuecomment-953366110,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1380,953366110,IC_kwDOBm6k_c440zZe,813732,2021-10-27T22:48:55Z,2021-10-27T22:48:55Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"It looks like if the files argument is a directory, `config_dir` is set, but files in that folder are only loaded into `self.files` at the `Datasette` class initialisation. 

I tried seeing if I could get `--reload` to work, but I'm getting issues trying to use that command when specifying a directory, as the command `serve` ends up in the files list(?): 

```
datasette serve  . --reload
Error: Invalid value for '[FILES]...': Path 'serve' does not exist.
```","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",924748955,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1380#issuecomment-967181828,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1380,967181828,IC_kwDOBm6k_c45pgYE,7094907,2021-11-12T15:00:18Z,2021-11-12T20:02:29Z,NONE,"There is no such option see https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/43. But you could write a plugin using the datasette.add_database(db, name=None) https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/internals.html#add-database-db-name-none ","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",924748955,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1380#issuecomment-967747190,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1380,967747190,IC_kwDOBm6k_c45rqZ2,813732,2021-11-13T00:47:26Z,2021-11-13T00:47:26Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"Would it make sense to run datasette with a fswatch/inotifywait on a folder, then? ","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",924748955,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1380#issuecomment-967801997,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1380,967801997,IC_kwDOBm6k_c45r3yN,7094907,2021-11-13T08:05:37Z,2021-11-13T08:09:11Z,NONE,"@glasnt yeah I guess that could be an option.  I run datasette on large databases > 75gb and the startup time is a bit slow for me even with -i --inspect-file options. Here's a quick sketch for a plugin that will reload db's in a folder that you set for the plugin in metadata.json. If you request /-reload-db new db's will be added. (You probably want to implement some authentication for this =) ) 

https://gist.github.com/Segerberg/b96a0e0a5389dce2396497323cda7042
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