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Old 01-24-2012, 12:43 AM   #1
jasn
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[Solved] How To Configure Calibre Device Target Directory

I can't seem to be able to configure the device target directory for Calibre. My device is a rooted Nook Color, and I simply want Calibre to sync my books with a top level directory on my Nook's sdcard, called books. Calibre refuses to do anything but put my books into a subdirectory called Books, inside a root level directory called My Files, and will create them if they're not there. It's also interesting that Calibre always refers to the sdcard in my Nook as Main Memory, and the internal, (emmc), memory as Card A.

After searching the forum here, I've tried;

1) Editing the Preferences -> Plugins -> Device Interface and putting books/, /books/, or /sdcard/books/, immediately preceding the {author_sort}/{title} - {authors} string, in the Nook Color device plugin. Or by putting the same directories as the only directory in the directory field of the Android plugin.

2) Editing the Save Template to put books/ before the {author_sort}/{title} - {authors} string there as well.

Neither works. Calibre forces the books into a My Files -> Books directory hierarchy, which it will treat as the root directory, because if I specify /sdcard/books/ as the directory to save to as indicated above, it will create a My Files -> Books -> sdcard -> books hierarchy to save books to.

I also noticed that even though I ran the welcome wizard and tried selecting Android device (tablet), or Generic device, it will only use any customized settings that I applied to the Nook device plugin. In other words it doesn't matter what device I select when I configure Calibre, it detects my Nook, and treats the device as a Nook.

All I want, is a way to define the device target directory. Is there an advanced option available for this that I'm missing? Also where can I define the device for Calibre in a way that will stick?

Thanks..

Last edited by jasn; 01-24-2012 at 05:56 PM.
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