08-09-2010, 07:19 PM | #1 |
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calibre + iTunes = frustrating disaster
Are people with large libraries getting this to work properly?
When I connect calibre to iTunes half the time all the books I had previously downloaded to iTunes are deleted. This is seriously frustrating. I have spent over a week adding and re-adding the same books to iTunes only to have them deleted. I'm having a host of other problems, including an endless "Attribute Error" message that can't be gotten rid of and book titles that show up differently in iTunes than on calibre, so that calibre thinks they are different books. I love reading on my iPad but I'm about to give up on it because managing my library is so frustrating. Right now after discovering the loss of the 500 books I uploaded last night, I feel like banging my head on my desk. But then I'd be bookless and have a headache too... -Marcy |
08-10-2010, 01:44 AM | #2 |
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I have no issues with books disappearing from iTunes, and I also have a large library on my iPad. It sounds as if you may have one of your iTunes settings wrong for what is required to work correctly with iTunes - have you checked carefully that they are as is specified for working with Calibre?
The greatest frustration is that it does not seem to be possible to control the ordering shown in the iBooks bookshelf from the Calibre end! All new books always appear at the top. However I suspect that is an iBooks issue rather than a Calibre one. IBooks could do with some more ordering options such as support for ordering by author or tags, or folder support. I guess these could come in a future release. I sometimes use Stanza instead on the iPad simply because then I can do over-the-air downloading either via the Calibre Content server or via my calibre2opds generated catalog. |
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I would use Stanza if I could get calibre to send to it directly, like it does to iBooks. I love how I can change the brightness on the fly. I did follow all the directions in the calibre + ipad thread. I've started opening calibre only via the command line, so I can have the debug file handy. -Marcy |
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08-10-2010, 10:02 AM | #5 |
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@Marcy:
In iTunes|Preferences|Advanced|Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to Library: checked or unchecked? In iTunes|DEVICES|Summary|Options|Manually manage music and videos: checked or unchecked? In iTunes|LIBRARY|Books, are the books that you've transferred from calibre listed there? Do they have a '!' in front of them? After transferring books from calibre to iTunes, what steps are you taking to sync your iDevice with iTunes? G |
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Thanks for your help. -Marcy |
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@Marcy:
You're allowing iTunes to automatically sync your iDevice when it's plugged in, so let's take a closer look at your Sync settings. With the iPad plugged in: iTunes|DEVICES|Books|Sync Books: Checked or unchecked? All books or Selected books: Which is selected? G |
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However everything is selected. Hopefully this can be changed to All Books, since the list is long, cumbersome and scrolls painfully slow. -Marcy |
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Try changing to All Books, see if that makes a difference.
Also, confirm that iTunes|DEVICES|Books|Sync Books is checked. G |
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My problems are books being unilaterally deleted from iTunes. -Marcy |
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At what stage in your update process do the books disappear from iTunes?
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08-10-2010, 04:40 PM | #12 |
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In calibre|Preferences|Plugins|Device Interface plugins|Apple device interface, do you have the driver disabled (grayed out)?
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I have absolutely no iPad experience. I know you disabled the plugin according to the directions when you started. Did you go back this evening and verify that it is still turned off? On very rare occasions (I may have been hallucinating) I could have sworn an option that I had turned off went back to default after an upgrade. Just a thought. Last edited by DoctorOhh; 08-10-2010 at 09:54 PM. |
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08-10-2010, 09:45 PM | #15 |
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@Marcy:
Here's what I would recommend at this point. In addition to dwanthny's suggestions, I would suggest that you disable the automatic syncing when the iPad is connected so you can get a better sense of how and when your books are disappearing. If you control when the sync is done, you'll be able to inspect the conditions before and after the sync. G |
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