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country0129 · 10-20-2012, 07:20 PM

I'm considering a Calibre task.

I have run Calibre for Windoze for a long time. Trying now to run it on Mint 10, 64-bit, under guest session of Virtual Box. However, after installing Calibre in the VM, I cannot point my books' directory of the Wizard to my resident Calibre directory: it's greyed out and won't allow anything but a directory change from a file manager. Also, I am having difficulty finding the drive in the file manager of Mint. (feel silly!)

I hesitate to create a second library, for there's 12.74 G in my present library. It'd take some effort to sync two libraries. Now I see that some say there are problems accessing a single directory from both OS's......and that there should not be two instances of Calibre using the same library. Maybe I should forgo the attempt? I was just wanting to try to take advantage of additional RAM (if possible) through Linux, for Windoze only uses about 3.4-5 G with X86 architecture. Does it take advantage of additional RAM under Linux with 64-bit OS? I have 16 G RAM onboard.

10-20-2012, 07:20 PM	#1
country0129 Country0129 Posts: 55 Karma: 506306 Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Louisiana Device: Kindle, Kindle Fire, PC	Virtualbox/Calibre I'm considering a Calibre task. I have run Calibre for Windoze for a long time. Trying now to run it on Mint 10, 64-bit, under guest session of Virtual Box. However, after installing Calibre in the VM, I cannot point my books' directory of the Wizard to my resident Calibre directory: it's greyed out and won't allow anything but a directory change from a file manager. Also, I am having difficulty finding the drive in the file manager of Mint. (feel silly!) I hesitate to create a second library, for there's 12.74 G in my present library. It'd take some effort to sync two libraries. Now I see that some say there are problems accessing a single directory from both OS's......and that there should not be two instances of Calibre using the same library. Maybe I should forgo the attempt? I was just wanting to try to take advantage of additional RAM (if possible) through Linux, for Windoze only uses about 3.4-5 G with X86 architecture. Does it take advantage of additional RAM under Linux with 64-bit OS? I have 16 G RAM onboard.