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Mad Girl Disease · 09-19-2013, 09:45 PM

hi. i just started using Calibre and it looks really nice. BUT...

I'm running (or was running) the portable installation in Window 7.

I was trying to delete books I added to the library and it was not going as expected. When I deleted books, it left behind empty (or mostly empty) folders associated with the deleted titles. When I try to delete these manually, I get an error from Windows saying:

Code:

Folder In Use: 
The action can't be completed because the folder or file is open in another program. 
Close the folder or file and try again.

It indicates the program as Calibre Portable.

Calibre was not running. Nor was anything I could identify as being associated with Calibre running in Task Manager.

I was able to totally delete the Calibre db, and other files, and eventually I was able to remove every file from the entire installation -- BUT the folder associated with that book can not be deleted, and so the entire otherwise empty folder structure remains.

This is really frustrating.

How can I get rid of this?

Also, I noticed a couple of times when I tried to delete a book, I'd get an error message, from Calibre, saying that the file already existed, as though I was trying to overwrite a file. This made no sense to me. But it seems somehow related.

What am I missing?

Like I said, it looks like a nice program, and I was able to get it to convert a complex PDF into a beautifully formatted rtf doc that I was able to bring into Word. So I really want to like Calibre. But this just seems weird.

All insight appreciated!

Thank you!

09-19-2013, 09:45 PM	#1
Mad Girl Disease Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2013 Device: Calibre	Trying to delete folders = "open in another program" hi. i just started using Calibre and it looks really nice. BUT... I'm running (or was running) the portable installation in Window 7. I was trying to delete books I added to the library and it was not going as expected. When I deleted books, it left behind empty (or mostly empty) folders associated with the deleted titles. When I try to delete these manually, I get an error from Windows saying: Code: Folder In Use: The action can't be completed because the folder or file is open in another program. Close the folder or file and try again. It indicates the program as Calibre Portable. Calibre was not running. Nor was anything I could identify as being associated with Calibre running in Task Manager. I was able to totally delete the Calibre db, and other files, and eventually I was able to remove every file from the entire installation -- BUT the folder associated with that book can not be deleted, and so the entire otherwise empty folder structure remains. This is really frustrating. How can I get rid of this? Also, I noticed a couple of times when I tried to delete a book, I'd get an error message, from Calibre, saying that the file already existed, as though I was trying to overwrite a file. This made no sense to me. But it seems somehow related. What am I missing? Like I said, it looks like a nice program, and I was able to get it to convert a complex PDF into a beautifully formatted rtf doc that I was able to bring into Word. So I really want to like Calibre. But this just seems weird. All insight appreciated! Thank you! Last edited by Mad Girl Disease; 09-19-2013 at 09:48 PM. Reason: typose, etc.