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Purple Lady · 09-02-2013, 11:40 PM

Sorry for the confusion. At first I thought there was a problem with multiple authors in CC, but I did not have the author field formatted properly. When it was properly formatted in Calibre it still wasn't showing up in CC, but that was because sending the book again did not work even though Calibre showed it as being on the device. I was about to report the author problem I thought I had when I decided to check the book on my device instead of checking for the book by looking at one of the authors in question. I thought I removed enough text about the problem I thought I had to prevent confusion, but I guess I didn't. The only real problem was the connection problem/error.

The connection problem happened only once before and it was a similar situation where I connected and sent a book to the device and then disconnected and deleted the book in CC and then connected again and sent the book again. I only have about 400 books on my device, so that's not a problem. It may have been how quickly I connected and disconnected repeatedly. Here's the steps I went thru again - the connection problem happened somewhere here, but I don't know exactly where.

1. fixed the authors in the book in Calibre.
2. connected wirelessly to Calibre.
3. checked the author grouping and still didn't see the books I expected. (I was looking at the wrong author, so the wireless connection may have fixed it)
4. disconnected using CC so I could delete the book.
5. deleted the book in CC
6. connected wirelessly to Calibre.
7. sent the book again.
8. checked the author grouping and still didn't see the books I expected so I looked for the book itself and the book wasn't there even though Calibre showed it as being there.

At this point I noticed that CC showed not connected so I tried to connect again and got the error msg. I had to reboot the tablet to be able to connect again - force stopping CC didn't work.

If this isn't enough info or if I am till not phrasing my problem correctly, I can wait for the new version and see if I can make it happen again.

09-02-2013, 11:40 PM	#3
Purple Lady Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,698 Karma: 16542228 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Pennsylvania Device: Huawei MediaPad M5, LG V30, Boyue T80S, Nexus 7 LTE, K3 3G, Fire HD8	Sorry for the confusion. At first I thought there was a problem with multiple authors in CC, but I did not have the author field formatted properly. When it was properly formatted in Calibre it still wasn't showing up in CC, but that was because sending the book again did not work even though Calibre showed it as being on the device. I was about to report the author problem I thought I had when I decided to check the book on my device instead of checking for the book by looking at one of the authors in question. I thought I removed enough text about the problem I thought I had to prevent confusion, but I guess I didn't. The only real problem was the connection problem/error. The connection problem happened only once before and it was a similar situation where I connected and sent a book to the device and then disconnected and deleted the book in CC and then connected again and sent the book again. I only have about 400 books on my device, so that's not a problem. It may have been how quickly I connected and disconnected repeatedly. Here's the steps I went thru again - the connection problem happened somewhere here, but I don't know exactly where. 1. fixed the authors in the book in Calibre. 2. connected wirelessly to Calibre. 3. checked the author grouping and still didn't see the books I expected. (I was looking at the wrong author, so the wireless connection may have fixed it) 4. disconnected using CC so I could delete the book. 5. deleted the book in CC 6. connected wirelessly to Calibre. 7. sent the book again. 8. checked the author grouping and still didn't see the books I expected so I looked for the book itself and the book wasn't there even though Calibre showed it as being there. At this point I noticed that CC showed not connected so I tried to connect again and got the error msg. I had to reboot the tablet to be able to connect again - force stopping CC didn't work. If this isn't enough info or if I am till not phrasing my problem correctly, I can wait for the new version and see if I can make it happen again.