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 The watcher continues with the next file; one bad rip won't stop the daemon.
 
+**Destination collisions:** if a finished encode would land on a name that already exists in `paths.output`, the move is refused (no silent overwrite) and the source is routed to `paths.failed`. This is the path you'll hit when two sources sanitize to the same output filename — e.g. two re-rips of the same release, or two episodes that both come out as `SxxExx`.
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+**Cross-filesystem moves:** every move (`paths.input → paths.output`, `… → paths.failed`, `… → paths.originals`) transparently falls back to copy + delete when the source and destination live on different mounts. You can put each path on a different drive without breaking the pipeline.
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 ## 10. Polling behavior
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 - Input directory is scanned every **15 seconds** (clamped to a 10–30 s range).
 - Only files matching `*.mkv` directly in `paths.input` are picked up — no recursion.
 - Files are processed **sequentially**, one at a time, in the order `filepath.Glob` returns them (alphabetical on Linux).
-- There is no atomic-write detection. If you're copying a large file into `paths.input`, copy it to a different name first and `mv` it into place once complete, otherwise the watcher may try to encode a half-written file.
+- **Partial-write protection:** the watcher requires a file's `mtime` and `size` to be identical on two consecutive scans before processing. A freshly dropped or still-copying file therefore waits at least one full tick (~15 s) before encoding begins. Copying a large file directly into `paths.input` is now safe; you no longer have to land it under a different name and `mv` into place (though doing so still works and shaves off the tick delay).
+- **Failure quarantine:** if `processFile` returns an error, that file is skipped for 5 minutes (or until its `mtime` changes — e.g. you replace or `touch` it). Prevents a permanently-broken input from spamming the logs every 15 s. The quarantine is in-memory only; restarting the daemon clears it.
 
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