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edwdecarlo · 03-23-2013, 11:05 AM

Thank you everyone for your input/help.

I do have an external hard drive which holds my library, but it is not a network drive, it is connected to my laptop via USB and is not shared. I was not viewing the book, or editing the cover.

I have had my library on the external drive for quite a bit of time and had not had this issue in the past. The issue is intermittent, and eventually after 2 or 3 repetitive tries it is able to accept my change (move/rename the book files) without me having to exit Calibre or reboot.

I did receive a driver upgrade for USB 3.0 recently, so perhaps that is interfering with the Microsoft file locking detection at times.

I am also removing my Calibre dirs from the Win 7 file Indexing to see if this is the issue. Perhaps some Windows update has affected the Indexing and locking on external drives (in the past Windows has assumed C and D to be physical drives and E or higher to be network drives which require a higher level of security/monitoring, and my external drive maps to E). I'll post the results once Windows finished the file Index rebuild.

Thanks again.

03-23-2013, 11:05 AM	#5
edwdecarlo Enthusiast Posts: 37 Karma: 41 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: North Kingstown, RI, USA Device: Kindle DX,Nexus 10,Fire HD	Thank you everyone for your input/help. I do have an external hard drive which holds my library, but it is not a network drive, it is connected to my laptop via USB and is not shared. I was not viewing the book, or editing the cover. I have had my library on the external drive for quite a bit of time and had not had this issue in the past. The issue is intermittent, and eventually after 2 or 3 repetitive tries it is able to accept my change (move/rename the book files) without me having to exit Calibre or reboot. I did receive a driver upgrade for USB 3.0 recently, so perhaps that is interfering with the Microsoft file locking detection at times. I am also removing my Calibre dirs from the Win 7 file Indexing to see if this is the issue. Perhaps some Windows update has affected the Indexing and locking on external drives (in the past Windows has assumed C and D to be physical drives and E or higher to be network drives which require a higher level of security/monitoring, and my external drive maps to E). I'll post the results once Windows finished the file Index rebuild. Thanks again.