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For the record: I prefer Dropbox over SugarSync for high-priority syncing, because overall, Dropbox seems more reliable/faster to me than SugarSync, but for syncing books, I have found SugarSync perfect. Quote:
Also, SugarSync places a handy icon into your MacBook status bar, so that you can see at a glance if all your books are backed up or not. And they are, 99.99% of the time. Quote:
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Nope, leave everything as is. Just put the single "Books" folder, where Calibre stores everything, into Dropbox. Inside that folder, authors will be sorted in sub-folders -- one writer, one folder. Inside each such folder, each work by the writer gets a separate folder. One work -- one folder. Then, on the iPad or iPhone, you can access your Calibre folders either using the Dropbox app, or if you prefer to use the Dropbox feature in Marvin, Marvin will automatically list 1000 of your books from Dropbox for you. (And you can filter the search results, to quickly find the book/writer you're looking for.) No password needed, other than for accessing your Dropbox account. If anything is unclear, just ask. |
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03-13-2013, 05:33 PM | #1022 |
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Kris, great update. I'm looking forward to the next update. I've already purchased the theme pack. Nice job!
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03-14-2013, 02:59 AM | #1023 |
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Ah, the updates also on the UK store - bought the pack as a thanks for the program!
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03-14-2013, 04:06 AM | #1024 |
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Thanks guys.
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03-14-2013, 07:30 AM | #1026 |
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I'll be including that in a future version.
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03-14-2013, 03:34 PM | #1027 |
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I seem to be having a problem where my iPad does not go to sleep if Marvin in open even though in the settings I have have turned off "disable auto-lock while reading" (it always takes me while to reason through that double negative, but I think this means that it should auto-lock). Anyone else having this issue?
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Have you upgraded to 1.3? The problem was fixed in that version.
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03-14-2013, 03:56 PM | #1029 |
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yes, it is 1.3. i'll run another test to observe the behavior and let you know.
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03-14-2013, 04:51 PM | #1030 |
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I tested it again, and regardless of which setting I choose for "disable auto lock", it never auto-locks.
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03-14-2013, 05:17 PM | #1031 |
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Can't confirm this issue -- auto-lock works as expected for me both in Marvin 1.3 and 1.4 Beta 2.
(iPad 1 and iPad 3 here, both in their most recent iOS versions.) |
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iPad 3 sleeps after 2 minutes with Marvin 1.3 active. Screen dims and a few seconds later the iPad "sleeps".
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When you move your library, make sure your metadata file goes with it. When I moved mine from the computer to Dropbox, somehow the metadata.db file got left behind. I didn't realize that immediately and it cost me some ginormous confusion. And I'm still dealing with having two separate files for almost every author in Dropbox - there's a Lastname/Firstname folder for each author, as well as a Firstname/Lastname folder. I don't know how the heck that happened, but there it is. I've been trying to figure out a fix short of going through the Dropbox Calibre folder author by author and eliminating the older one, but there's no consistency as far as one or the other being the most recently modified. I could've probably fixed it early on if I'd realized what had happened Here's what the Calibre FAQ says about that metadata folder, under the section about moving your library from one computer to another: "Note A calibre library is just a folder which contains all the book files and their metadata. All the metadata is stored in a single file called metadata.db, in the top level folder. If this file gets corrupted, you may see an empty list of books in calibre. In this case you can ask calibre to restore your books by doing a right-click on the calibre icon in the toolbar and selecting Library Maintenance->Restore Library." I think I could've done the "Restore Library" thing early on if I'd realized what had happened with the metadata folder. By the time I figured it out I'd already made changes and I'm not sure it would've worked. I love Calibre, but I don't always understand it. I need a "Calibre for Dummies"! Anyway, even if I leave it as is, it's well worth being able to access my library from anywhere to download to Marvin. I should probably just leave it and stop obsessing over getting it "perfect". |
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FWIW, whether Calibre names a writer's subfolder Firstname_Lastname or Lastname_Firstname depends on how the author's name is stated in the metadata for his/her individual books.
For example, if you have 5 Hemingway books in your Calibre Library, but some of those books state "Ernest Hemingway" as the author in the book's metadata, while other books state the author as "Hemingway, Ernest", then you will end up with two folders for Hemingway books in Calibre: One of the folders will be named Ernest_Hemingway, and the other folder will be named Hemingway,_Ernest. However, the books themselves won't be duplicated inside the two subfolders -- each subfolder will contain different books by Hemingway, depending on how his name is stated in the metadata for a particular book. That's why it makes sense to unify how you state the writers' names inside metadata for books in your Calibre library. If you unify this, then you will only end up with one subfolder for every writer, as it should be. Last edited by Faterson; 03-14-2013 at 08:19 PM. |
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