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Need help with Calibre and my new ($159) Kindle Fire
When I connect my new 2nd Generation Kindle Fire (the $159 one) via a USB cable Calibre 0.8.69 doesn't detect detect it. Whereas my friend's old Kindle Fire (same computer, same installition of Calibre) is detected by Calibre and Windows has assigned it a drive letter. His older Fire gets MOBI books from Calibre and places them in the documents folder and the Fire sees the books and lists them as books. But with my new Fire Calibre has no send to device icon and Windows ID's it as an external media player with no drive letter assigned, so I added the code:
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09-21-2012, 01:09 AM | #3 | |
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It would help if we could see the template you are using. Go to preferences -> plugins -> device interface plugins -> MTP, copy the template there, and post it. |
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09-21-2012, 01:33 AM | #6 |
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I could be wrong but you might need to remove the save to template from the default save to as well as from the mtp plugin specific one.
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1. copied and pasted the original string into a text file. 2. copied this string from Kovid's reply {title} - {authors} 3. and pasted it into the (now blank) text box. ...as you can see there were no /'s in it and it did as I described earlier in this post. If {title} - {authors} is now the default template string I doubt it will work for my 2nd Generation Fire, but I will, of course, try it. |
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I apologize for being so picky, but calibre definitely will not create subfolders if there is not a / somewhere in the template. Therefore, calibre did not use the template you entered and the question is why. Something else is going on, and unless that something else is identified it is likely that you won't get satisfaction. |
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There was a bug in the beta driver where the global template in Preferences->sending to device took precedence over the device specific one. That bug is now fixed, simply update to 0.8.70 and your problem should no longer happen.
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Thanks Kovid.
Thanks Kovid. I'll get on that this morning and report later today.
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Calibre and my new ($159) Kindle Fire
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09-21-2012, 12:47 PM | #15 |
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Glad to hear it
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