Incomplete News Download Under Mountain Lion

rusky · 09-11-2012, 03:01 AM

Since I upgraded to mountain lion I've noticed that the news that's scheduled to download at 6:30am doesn't until I wake the Mac. Before it used to download the papers.
The computer is set to sleep after 3 hours & under Lion it did used to wake.

The other that may or may not be related is one of the papers (Guardian & Observer UK) hardly ever downloads correctly now. It only downloads a few hundred KB whereas if I manually download it's fine.

Currently running 0.8.67

kovidgoyal · 09-11-2012, 03:09 AM

calibre does not contain any code to wake up a sleeping computer. You need to setup your computer to wake at the correct time outside calibre.

rusky · 09-11-2012, 04:41 AM

Hi Kovid,

Understood, it's not any hassle.

Any idea why Calibre only downloads about 400K instead of the whole 3MB? It works if I manually start the scheduled task.

kovidgoyal · 09-11-2012, 06:34 AM

Nope, there has to be something different about your environment to cause that, the download code is the same whether your run it manually or via a schedule. Try scheduling it for a normal time (when you would download manually) and see what happens.

theducks · 09-11-2012, 09:55 AM

Could your computer , just be going to sleep (again) after a short period of User Inactivity (Background tasks don't seem to count

as Activity on XP). The News download had not finished before sleepy time occurred (

Increase the Idle timeout a bit and see if that helps. You can have a short Turn off the screen time to save power).

rusky · 09-11-2012, 05:31 PM

Calibre is set to download the paper after 6:00am. The Mac goes to sleep after 3 hours so if I head to the land of nod at 11pm, it will sleep around 2am.

I went away for 2 weeks & left the Mac on & the papers were still emailed & they were complete on most days.

It seems that when I wake the Mac, it seems to only download a few hundred KB of the file.

I'm convinced it's OS X but looking at my sent emails, the ones that are being emailed when I wake the mac are more likely to fail!

09-11-2012, 03:01 AM	#1
rusky Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2011 Device: Kindle 3	Incomplete News Download Under Mountain Lion Since I upgraded to mountain lion I've noticed that the news that's scheduled to download at 6:30am doesn't until I wake the Mac. Before it used to download the papers. The computer is set to sleep after 3 hours & under Lion it did used to wake. The other that may or may not be related is one of the papers (Guardian & Observer UK) hardly ever downloads correctly now. It only downloads a few hundred KB whereas if I manually download it's fine. Currently running 0.8.67

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09-11-2012, 03:09 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	calibre does not contain any code to wake up a sleeping computer. You need to setup your computer to wake at the correct time outside calibre.

09-11-2012, 04:41 AM	#3
rusky Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2011 Device: Kindle 3	Hi Kovid, Understood, it's not any hassle. Any idea why Calibre only downloads about 400K instead of the whole 3MB? It works if I manually start the scheduled task.

09-11-2012, 06:34 AM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Nope, there has to be something different about your environment to cause that, the download code is the same whether your run it manually or via a schedule. Try scheduling it for a normal time (when you would download manually) and see what happens.

09-11-2012, 09:55 AM	#5
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,803 Karma: 54830978 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Could your computer , just be going to sleep (again) after a short period of User Inactivity (Background tasks don't seem to count as Activity on XP). The News download had not finished before sleepy time occurred ( Increase the Idle timeout a bit and see if that helps. You can have a short Turn off the screen time to save power).

09-11-2012, 05:31 PM	#6
rusky Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2011 Device: Kindle 3	Calibre is set to download the paper after 6:00am. The Mac goes to sleep after 3 hours so if I head to the land of nod at 11pm, it will sleep around 2am. I went away for 2 weeks & left the Mac on & the papers were still emailed & they were complete on most days. It seems that when I wake the Mac, it seems to only download a few hundred KB of the file. I'm convinced it's OS X but looking at my sent emails, the ones that are being emailed when I wake the mac are more likely to fail!