MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - no donaload confirmations + a risky "download all" option

cybmole · 04-30-2014, 02:07 PM

more on same topic. I disconnected & reconnected CC & weant aroudn the loop again to confirm my observations.

on the serach sresults screen, I see the lsit of books that matchedd the search & I can tick some or all, but the "download all" button is greyed out.

on the list by newest main option, again I can tick individual books. Her the download all option is NOT greyed out.

on both of those screens , I see no way to "untick" a selection, I tried both short & long taps, I get only to che choose view metadata or choose download decision box.
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I did on this 2nd try, get a "we are now downloading your book confirmation. I was not seeing that before so maybe there was a connection glitch- but I was connected " enough" to be able to search & sort. so lets put the lack of confirmation down to user inexperience for now. althoguh, in-between tried I did change the default directory to doanoads, from Calibre Companion.

I wonder if you default directory is not a valid path for a KF, or thta you lack the rights to create it. I am searching the KF folders now & I can't see a Calibre companion folder anywhere ( though me changing the default could have caused it to move or vanish I suppose ? )

that " download all" button bugs me though. it would be fine if 99% of your library is already on the tablet & you are just synching new additions, but if not....

UPDATE 3?

Ok I am slowly getting the hang of this - while CONNECTED to content server ,"tick" means on device" so "untick" is not a logical operation.. I am still confused by download vs download queue.

after disconnecting I can now see how to delete a single book.
I can't see how to delete the 100 or so that arrived because I accidentally selected download all , expect for doing them one at a time ?

zapping them via file explorer just confuses CC's records, they need to be deleted from inside the app ?

04-30-2014, 02:07 PM	#2
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	more on same topic. I disconnected & reconnected CC & weant aroudn the loop again to confirm my observations. on the serach sresults screen, I see the lsit of books that matchedd the search & I can tick some or all, but the "download all" button is greyed out. on the list by newest main option, again I can tick individual books. Her the download all option is NOT greyed out. on both of those screens , I see no way to "untick" a selection, I tried both short & long taps, I get only to che choose view metadata or choose download decision box. " I did on this 2nd try, get a "we are now downloading your book confirmation. I was not seeing that before so maybe there was a connection glitch- but I was connected " enough" to be able to search & sort. so lets put the lack of confirmation down to user inexperience for now. althoguh, in-between tried I did change the default directory to doanoads, from Calibre Companion. I wonder if you default directory is not a valid path for a KF, or thta you lack the rights to create it. I am searching the KF folders now & I can't see a Calibre companion folder anywhere ( though me changing the default could have caused it to move or vanish I suppose ? ) that " download all" button bugs me though. it would be fine if 99% of your library is already on the tablet & you are just synching new additions, but if not.... UPDATE 3? Ok I am slowly getting the hang of this - while CONNECTED to content server ,"tick" means on device" so "untick" is not a logical operation.. I am still confused by download vs download queue. after disconnecting I can now see how to delete a single book. I can't see how to delete the 100 or so that arrived because I accidentally selected download all , expect for doing them one at a time ? zapping them via file explorer just confuses CC's records, they need to be deleted from inside the app ? Last edited by cybmole; 04-30-2014 at 02:16 PM.