I have tried the MTP connection on my Nexus 7. It looks like it did a scan of my entire device and found books and logs from all sorts of locations.
Including a zip file that contained ogg files plus one xml file from the navigation system.
I have several epubs in the device view that say Unknown for Title and Author. These were sent by Calibre Companion and open fine on my device. When I attempt to add them to calibre's library I get the following error.
Spoiler:
calibre, version 0.8.69
ERROR: Error: Error communicating with device
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'C:\\Users\\whanthon\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calib re_0.8.69_tmp_woksa1\\qickte_prepare_mtp\\o3B8D\\T he Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook_ 250 No-Fail Recipes for Pilafs, Risottos, Polenta, Chilis, Soups, Porridges, Puddings and More, from Start to Finish in Your Rice Cooker-Beth Hensperger & Julie Kaufmann.epub'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 85, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 461, in _prepare_addable_books
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\mtp\driver.py", line 268, in prepare_addable_books
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'C:\\Users\\whanthon\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calib re_0.8.69_tmp_woksa1\\qickte_prepare_mtp\\o3B8D\\T he Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook_ 250 No-Fail Recipes for Pilafs, Risottos, Polenta, Chilis, Soups, Porridges, Puddings and More, from Start to Finish in Your Rice Cooker-Beth Hensperger & Julie Kaufmann.epub'
It seems what they all have in common is the file name is too long, see attached. I can see every book that causes this error in Windows explorer fine, but they will not open via Windows because the file name is too long. Android though has no problem opening them. Most of them are books with multiple authors.
Calibre Companion handles them fine but Calibre doesn't recognize the books with a check in the OnDevice column as being in the library and on the device.
This is not a problem for me but I wanted to point out the situation to you.
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Originally Posted by jackie_w
It's official, I'm a "lost cause"  It's not a problem for me, I'll continue doing what I've been doing |
Have you been using
Calibre Companion? If not give it ago. I even used your old coll505sort to create a All by Author (abs) sort of all my books on my device by Author, Series and Title. For less than $3 you can't go wrong.