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montalex · 05-31-2011, 09:44 AM

This sounded like a good idea, especially because my storage folder for Calibre is a Dropbox. So I just searched the book folder on My Dropbox for cover.jpg, and deleted all of them, and everything is fine. Of course, I no longer see the covers in Calibre, but they are there in the mobi's and epub's. Most of the cover jpg's are tiny, so I saved maybe 50MB.

Thanks for the idea. Oh, I had to delete them in small batches. Something about deleting files within Window Search kept closing Explorer if I tried to delete too many at a time. I had to delete 15 - 20 at a time. It took just a few minutes to go through 800 or so.

05-31-2011, 09:44 AM	#6
montalex Fanatic Posts: 556 Karma: 1283268 Join Date: Mar 2010 Device: KindleDX,Kindle 4, Kindle Keyboard 3G	This sounded like a good idea, especially because my storage folder for Calibre is a Dropbox. So I just searched the book folder on My Dropbox for cover.jpg, and deleted all of them, and everything is fine. Of course, I no longer see the covers in Calibre, but they are there in the mobi's and epub's. Most of the cover jpg's are tiny, so I saved maybe 50MB. Thanks for the idea. Oh, I had to delete them in small batches. Something about deleting files within Window Search kept closing Explorer if I tried to delete too many at a time. I had to delete 15 - 20 at a time. It took just a few minutes to go through 800 or so.