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mt42 · 05-07-2011, 01:29 AM

Dear Calibre Creator,
I am a new user, and just started to use 0.8.0. I am trying to load my collection of books, about 4-5k titles, in html/fb2, into a newly created Colibre Library, using "add books from dir and sub dirs, multiple books per dir". The things go ok for a while, then program stops doing anything - in about 10-15min, processor usage drops from 100% to ~2, the GUI is not responsive, I have to kill the process, restart app, and try again (with ~ the same result). if I separate the job in smaller chunks, it finishes each one ok - but it's debatable a good idea. the same happens on 2 machines: older under xp and newer under vista. Have you tested adding books from a dir with many books in it? How many is safe? I will be grateful for a constructive idea or advice, as well as for 0.8.1 with this behavior fixed:-).
Thanks!

05-07-2011, 01:29 AM	#1
mt42 Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2011 Device: astak mentor, etc	Calibre Becomes Unresponsive While Adding Books. Dear Calibre Creator, I am a new user, and just started to use 0.8.0. I am trying to load my collection of books, about 4-5k titles, in html/fb2, into a newly created Colibre Library, using "add books from dir and sub dirs, multiple books per dir". The things go ok for a while, then program stops doing anything - in about 10-15min, processor usage drops from 100% to ~2, the GUI is not responsive, I have to kill the process, restart app, and try again (with ~ the same result). if I separate the job in smaller chunks, it finishes each one ok - but it's debatable a good idea. the same happens on 2 machines: older under xp and newer under vista. Have you tested adding books from a dir with many books in it? How many is safe? I will be grateful for a constructive idea or advice, as well as for 0.8.1 with this behavior fixed:-). Thanks!