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Old 05-21-2013, 10:49 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by ilovejedd View Post
But there is an option for it. Not in the Calibre Portable wrapper (which I believe was created by someone else) but in Calibre itself.
We are not talking about the calibre version that is part of PortableApps.com. For this thread Calibre = Calibre portable for options and variables. Calibre portable is put out by Kovid and is downloaded from the same download page as the other versions.

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You'd have to create your own batch file/launcher but at least there's a provision for it in the main program. You don't have to know the drive letter for the USB drive to assign it. You can do so easily from the batch file as you've shown in your other post.

set CALIBRE_TEMP_DIR=%CD%\Temp
Good information. Kovid pointed this info out in post 3 and the OP acknowledge knowing about it in post 4.

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Why is it unnecessary? I've found SSDs to greatly speed up large batch conversions, etc. I bought an SSD to increase performance. I'd rather have stuff (particularly temp files) on the SSD for faster performance than on slow HDDs just to preserve the SSD's NAND (which are usually good for 1,000~5,000 P/E cycles).

Unless you've got a really, really cheap SSD, I wouldn't worry about NAND life.
Agreed.
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