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monkbythesea · 08-03-2010, 02:27 PM

Yeah, I am glad Itimpi jumped in too. I started all sorts of crashes and problems which I suspect was due to my tinkering with the internal library. I cleaned it up and now all is back to normal.

It was a surprise to me to find Calibre does not recognize my device as drive when I try to "Save to disk." I had to save to desktop then copy over. It was annoying to go thru that entire process, so I started tinkering around to find out why and I could not believe the answer was so simple. I had my windows mobile connected via active sync which is Windows syncing software. You have 2 choices with windows when a device is connected:
1. sync via active sync
2. sync as disk drive
As you may guess, I had to select sync as disk drive for Calibre to recognize my device as a disk drive. This I think should be a sticky in FAQs for windows mobile users because most have thiers setup to sync via Activesync. Or maybe I was just making a noob mistake. Anyways, "connect to folder" feature is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And just discovered "content server" feature too. AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME!! Thank you for the tip Dwantny!!!

Also, thanks for all your help with my "Save template" problems. Now the "save template" I modified outputs the folders just the way my device eReader needs which I was nice. Only thing I wish is that you could make the "Author Sort" AUTOMATICALLY reverse the authors name so that my "Save template" would generate a folder labeled "authors last name 1st/1st name last." I did not find a way to do that, so had to do each book manually. My save template is {tag}/{author_sort}/{title}. Fetching metadata online fills out "Author" box with author's 1st name 1st/last name last. Be nice if the "Author_Sort" box automatically reverse this. It would be one less field you have to edit. But, all in all, I'm very happy, and have imported 175 items into my library, edited most of them, and sent about half to my device. I liked the simplicity of Adobe Digital Editions very much, but the features of Calibre are just too rich too ignore and this community is one of the most helpful forums I have ever used.

08-03-2010, 02:27 PM	#7
monkbythesea Member Posts: 15 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: Windows Mobile	Yeah, I am glad Itimpi jumped in too. I started all sorts of crashes and problems which I suspect was due to my tinkering with the internal library. I cleaned it up and now all is back to normal. It was a surprise to me to find Calibre does not recognize my device as drive when I try to "Save to disk." I had to save to desktop then copy over. It was annoying to go thru that entire process, so I started tinkering around to find out why and I could not believe the answer was so simple. I had my windows mobile connected via active sync which is Windows syncing software. You have 2 choices with windows when a device is connected: 1. sync via active sync 2. sync as disk drive As you may guess, I had to select sync as disk drive for Calibre to recognize my device as a disk drive. This I think should be a sticky in FAQs for windows mobile users because most have thiers setup to sync via Activesync. Or maybe I was just making a noob mistake. Anyways, "connect to folder" feature is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And just discovered "content server" feature too. AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME!! Thank you for the tip Dwantny!!! Also, thanks for all your help with my "Save template" problems. Now the "save template" I modified outputs the folders just the way my device eReader needs which I was nice. Only thing I wish is that you could make the "Author Sort" AUTOMATICALLY reverse the authors name so that my "Save template" would generate a folder labeled "authors last name 1st/1st name last." I did not find a way to do that, so had to do each book manually. My save template is {tag}/{author_sort}/{title}. Fetching metadata online fills out "Author" box with author's 1st name 1st/last name last. Be nice if the "Author_Sort" box automatically reverse this. It would be one less field you have to edit. But, all in all, I'm very happy, and have imported 175 items into my library, edited most of them, and sent about half to my device. I liked the simplicity of Adobe Digital Editions very much, but the features of Calibre are just too rich too ignore and this community is one of the most helpful forums I have ever used.