Paperwhite - Leftover folders after removing a book

[hfpop]

After removing a book on Paperwhite, using the usual interface method (i.e. no USB or otherwise), the book-filename.sdr folder is still there, inside the documents folder. It will have to be removed manually. I find this very annoying.

Is there a solution to this problem? Maybe a script to clean documents folder, written for Kindle Launcher?

[JSWolf]

Are you using Calibre to manage your content?

[twobob]

Originally Posted by hfpop

After removing a book on Paperwhite, using the usual interface method (i.e. no USB or otherwise), the book-filename.sdr folder is still there, inside the documents folder. It will have to be removed manually. I find this very annoying.

Is there a solution to this problem? Maybe a script to clean documents folder, written for Kindle Launcher?

REPORT="/mnt/us/documents/FolderReport.txt"; rm -f $REPORT ; echo "new Report `date`" > $REPORT; IFS=$'\n'; for TEST in $(ls -d /mnt/us/documents/* | grep .sdr); do echo -ne "\r\rFOLDER= $TEST\r" >> $REPORT; TEST2=$(ls -Al "`dirname \"$TEST\"`""/""`echo "$TEST"| sed 's|.*\/\([^\.]*\)\(\..*\)$|\1|g'`".*"" | grep -v 'sdr' | grep "`dirname \"$TEST\"`" ) ; echo "MATCHING DOCUMENT= --[""$TEST2""]--" >> $REPORT; if [ -z "$TEST2" ]; then echo "DELETION CANDIDATE SELECTED $TEST" >> $REPORT ; rm -rf "$TEST" ;fi; done;

something like that

new Report Tue Apr 23 09:01:22 UTC 2013

FOLDER= /mnt/us/documents/3rd Sight_ A Horror Novel_123.sdr
MATCHING DOCUMENT= --[-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        399924 Mar  1 16:22 /mnt/us/documents/3rd Sight_ A Horror Novel_123.azw3]--

FOLDER= /mnt/us/documents/Ash_123.sdr
MATCHING DOCUMENT= --[-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        759140 Sep 20  2012 /mnt/us/documents/Ash_123.azw3]--

FOLDER= /mnt/us/documents/Battery-2013-02-28T17.50UTC.sdr
MATCHING DOCUMENT= --[]--
DELETION CANDIDATE SELECTED /mnt/us/documents/Battery-2013-02-28T17.50UTC.sdr

FOLDER= /mnt/us/documents/Chinese Chess Rules - Awak.sdr
MATCHING DOCUMENT= --[-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        383635 Feb 27 23:59 /mnt/us/documents/Chinese Chess Rules - Awak.azw3]--

FOLDER= /mnt/us/documents/Cloud Atlas_123.sdr
MATCHING DOCUMENT= --[-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       1371188 Apr  7 11:13 /mnt/us/documents/Cloud Atlas_123.azw3]--

FOLDER= /mnt/us/documents/Countdown_ H Hour_123.sdr
MATCHING DOCUMENT= --[-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        712620 Jan 11 06:47 /mnt/us/documents/Countdown_ H Hour_123.azw]--

FOLDER= /mnt/us/documents/Csound5.18_manual.sdr
MATCHING DOCUMENT= --[-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      11231282 Aug 28  2012 /mnt/us/documents/Csound5.18_manual.pdf]--

FOLDER= /mnt/us/documents/FolderReport.sdr
MATCHING DOCUMENT= --[-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          1366 Apr 23 01:15 /mnt/us/documents/FolderReport.txt]--

FOLDER= /mnt/us/documents/IMX50SDG.sdr
MATCHING DOCUMENT= --[-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       2182355 Sep 23  2012 /mnt/us/documents/IMX50SDG.pdf]--

FOLDER= /mnt/us/documents/Klingon.sdr
MATCHING DOCUMENT= --[-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        277482 Mar  7 03:17 /mnt/us/documents/Klingon.mobi]--

FOLDER= /mnt/us/documents/My Clippings.sdr
MATCHING DOCUMENT= --[]--
DELETION CANDIDATE SELECTED /mnt/us/documents/My Clippings.sdr

FOLDER= /mnt/us/documents/My_Own_Kind_of_Freedom.sdr
MATCHING DOCUMENT= --[-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        426966 Mar  8 19:33 /mnt/us/documents/My_Own_Kind_of_Freedom.mobi]--

FOLDER= /mnt/us/documents/Vulcan.sdr
MATCHING DOCUMENT= --[-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        651312 Mar  7 03:17 /mnt/us/documents/Vulcan.mobi]--

FOLDER= /mnt/us/documents/WAFs info.sdr
MATCHING DOCUMENT= --[]--
DELETION CANDIDATE SELECTED /mnt/us/documents/WAFs info.sdr

FOLDER= /mnt/us/documents/XWINSYS.sdr
MATCHING DOCUMENT= --[-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       1545159 Dec 17 04:00 /mnt/us/documents/XWINSYS.PDF]--

FOLDER= /mnt/us/documents/botsies.sdr
MATCHING DOCUMENT= --[-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        168499 Mar 23 18:50 /mnt/us/documents/botsies.mobi]--

FOLDER= /mnt/us/documents/dmesg-2013-04-01T22.09UTC.sdr
MATCHING DOCUMENT= --[-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         15583 Apr  1 22:09 /mnt/us/documents/dmesg-2013-04-01T22.09UTC.txt]--

FOLDER= /mnt/us/documents/doc32082.sdr
MATCHING DOCUMENT= --[-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        152785 Oct  9  2012 /mnt/us/documents/doc32082.pdf]--

FOLDER= /mnt/us/documents/dotsies.sdr
MATCHING DOCUMENT= --[]--
DELETION CANDIDATE SELECTED /mnt/us/documents/dotsies.sdr

FOLDER= /mnt/us/documents/gtkLog.sdr
MATCHING DOCUMENT= --[-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         20480 Apr 15 19:23 /mnt/us/documents/gtkLog.txt]--

FOLDER= /mnt/us/documents/kindle_waf_guide.sdr
MATCHING DOCUMENT= --[-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         10292 Sep 24  2012 /mnt/us/documents/kindle_waf_guide.mobi]--

FOLDER= /mnt/us/documents/nadsat.sdr
MATCHING DOCUMENT= --[-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        204611 Mar 17 21:32 /mnt/us/documents/nadsat.mobi]--

FOLDER= /mnt/us/documents/nadsat_test.sdr
MATCHING DOCUMENT= --[-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          9486 Mar  7 03:18 /mnt/us/documents/nadsat_test.mobi]--

EDITS:
v4 - Fixed typo in menu.json (twice)
v3 - made reports have internal timestamps and to correctly update "most recent" report when sorted by recency.
v2 - Added corrected line-spacing escapes to reports
v1 - Made it work

[brianinmaine]

Hey, cool! Very handy! Thanks!

[hfpop]

@twobob: Thank you.

[eschwartz]

The .sdr is removed specifically when a book is deleted through the Kindle interface and ISN'T in your cloud. I assume Amazon doesn't want people to lose the notes/highlights/bookmarks on their sideloaded books unless they really want it gone.

If you delete a book using calibre, it cleans up after the book as well, removing the .sdr since calibre knows how to write generated .apnx's there.

[booklover6]

Removing via Calibre does seem to delete those extra folders/files.

[hfpop]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

The .sdr is removed specifically when a book is deleted through the Kindle interface and ISN'T in your cloud.

I am sorry, but I honestly believe this is not true. I removed books using the Kindle interface and the .sdr folders are still there. I have been using Kindle PaperWhite, firmware 5.3.1, 5.3.3 and 5.3.4, all with the same result.

[susan_cassidy]

And the book wasn't in your Archives (cloud)?

[hfpop]

No. I was in airplane mode during all this experiment. The original book was sideloaded manually (i.e. without the use of any software other than the OS itself).

[hfpop]

I propose the following. Please comment.

#!/bin/sh

for FILE in `find /mnt/us/documents -name '*.sdr' -print 2>/dev/null` 
do
  FSPEC="${FILE%*.*}.*"
  FOUND=0
  for TEST in $FSPEC 
  do
    if [ -f $TEST ]; then 
      FOUND=1 
    fi
  done
  if [ "$FOUND" -eq 0 ]; then
    rm -rf "$FILE"
  fi
done

[Jwing]

Tks, twobob. It worked great.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by hfpop

No. I was in airplane mode during all this experiment. The original book was sideloaded manually (i.e. without the use of any software other than the OS itself).

That's why I said, IF IT WAS SIDELOADED, the .sdr remains. Long experimentation with my Kindle Touch has led me to this conclusion, that any SIDELOADED books keep the .sdr, any CLOUD books are fully removed (Except for system/thumbnails which gives your cloud book its cover.)

And Whenever I delete a book through calibre, it gets rid of the .sdr no matter what.

The why were just my own speculation.

[hfpop]

I attach a an archive counting as version 0.2 of FolderPruner. Essential changes from 0.1:

- no text report is generated
- all folders *.sdr in the substructure of /mnt/us/documents are considered, i.e. all descendants, not only the children.

Iterations:
v1: initial iteration
v2: it allows folder names that include spaces

[hfpop]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

That's why I said, IF IT WAS SIDELOADED, the .sdr remains.

I apologize. I am not an English native, but this is not what I understood.

Originally Posted by eschwartz

The .sdr is removed specifically when a book is deleted through the Kindle interface and ISN'T in your cloud.