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Old 02-25-2014, 07:48 PM   #2467
JimmXinu
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Originally Posted by FicReader81 View Post
However now their is a different issue. Whenever I try to update the stories (Again the no doesn't matter, I have tried it with groups numbering 5 to 30 of different stories from my collection of 400 odd), the plugin starts fetching metadata for the stories but it doesn't finish. Calibre ends up freezing somewhere during this step of the updating and when I try to retrieve it "Windows Explorer" gives me the error message that Calibre will now be closing. Calibre hasn't been able to successfully finish updating the stories I select (As I mentioned I have tried different size bunches from the collection) ever since I was able to get rid of the earlier error.
If you just leave it alone for several minutes does it eventually finish?

To prevent throttling on ffnet, the sleep time between requests was significantly increased version before the last. Long enough that calibre was entering the 'not responding' state according to windows.

The last version included code to reduce those sleep times for small update sets.

Quoting myself from an earlier post:

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Checking for updates on hundreds* of stories at once causes excessive traffic on the source site. fanfiction.net in particular has been known to block people's IP address if they generate too much traffic.

Instead, I highly recommend that you 'follow' stories and use the site's email notifications to inform you about updates and then update those specific stories. I also recommend using Update EPUB, not Overwrite, unless you have reason to believe that a particular story has changes in previous chapters.
* The original post said thousands.

Throttling by ffnet is no longer a theory, but an established fact.
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