Calibre no longer sees new books and can't add them

ScalyFreak · 07-21-2016, 09:50 PM

In the Documents folder on my computer I have a folder named My Books, where I store all the books I download from the many different sources I get books from. I have a few thousand books in this folder.

About 15 minutes ago I added three more. Typically what I do at this point is to open Calibre, then click Add books > Add books from a single directory, sort the books by date added, and import the three most recent ones.

Calibre can no longer do that. The most recent books Calibre can detect in this folder are from Christmas Eve of 2013, and the software counts a grand total of 182 ebooks present. Windows says the file count in that folder is just above 15K.

Calibre 2.62 and no changes to software that I can think of. This just happened today and though it a seems that my books are on the computer. Calibre just can't see them anymore.

How do I fix this?

kovidgoyal · 07-21-2016, 10:10 PM

Drag and drop the three books into calibre.

ScalyFreak · 07-21-2016, 10:23 PM

And that worked. Is there a configuration setting I can change, so I won't have to do that every time from now on?

And thank you.

kovidgoyal · 07-21-2016, 10:25 PM

There is no configuration that controls wat files the file dialog sees -- that's a standard windows dialog.

ScalyFreak · 07-21-2016, 10:30 PM

That's what I wasn't sure of, but if that is the case, it can be fixed.

Now to figure out exactly how...

Thanks again!

07-21-2016, 09:50 PM	#1
ScalyFreak Sith Wannabe Posts: 2,034 Karma: 8017430 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: I'm not sure... it's kind of dark. Device: Galaxy Note 4, Kobo Aura H2O, Kindle Fire HD, Aluratek Libre	Calibre no longer sees new books and can't add them In the Documents folder on my computer I have a folder named My Books, where I store all the books I download from the many different sources I get books from. I have a few thousand books in this folder. About 15 minutes ago I added three more. Typically what I do at this point is to open Calibre, then click Add books > Add books from a single directory, sort the books by date added, and import the three most recent ones. Calibre can no longer do that. The most recent books Calibre can detect in this folder are from Christmas Eve of 2013, and the software counts a grand total of 182 ebooks present. Windows says the file count in that folder is just above 15K. Calibre 2.62 and no changes to software that I can think of. This just happened today and though it a seems that my books are on the computer. Calibre just can't see them anymore. How do I fix this?

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07-21-2016, 10:10 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,853 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Drag and drop the three books into calibre.

07-21-2016, 10:23 PM	#3
ScalyFreak Sith Wannabe Posts: 2,034 Karma: 8017430 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: I'm not sure... it's kind of dark. Device: Galaxy Note 4, Kobo Aura H2O, Kindle Fire HD, Aluratek Libre	And that worked. Is there a configuration setting I can change, so I won't have to do that every time from now on? And thank you.

07-21-2016, 10:25 PM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,853 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	There is no configuration that controls wat files the file dialog sees -- that's a standard windows dialog.

07-21-2016, 10:30 PM	#5
ScalyFreak Sith Wannabe Posts: 2,034 Karma: 8017430 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: I'm not sure... it's kind of dark. Device: Galaxy Note 4, Kobo Aura H2O, Kindle Fire HD, Aluratek Libre	That's what I wasn't sure of, but if that is the case, it can be fixed. Now to figure out exactly how... Thanks again!

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