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JayKindle · 05-21-2014, 11:33 AM

UPDATE:

Still not out of the woods.

Today at 5:58 AM I had scheduled for Calibre to run, so it can start fetching News Feeds at 6:00am.

I set it to shut down after if it runs for more than 2 hrs. It usually takes no longer than 20 minutes to fetch the news, and then send them to my kindle's email address, so my unit can later download them.

Well, I did get successfully my news feeds on my kindle this morning. Went to check the PC after 8 am to see if calibre wasn't running anymore in Task Manager. It still was. Both calibre.exe and calibre-parallel.exe were running in Task Manager. I guess in idle, since it had finished completing the task, since I did get the only two news feeds I schedule for Wednesday to fetch.

I even put another schedule task session for calibre to shutdown, in case it wouldn't. I had programmed it to run at 7:00 a.m. The code is:

Code:

"C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre.exe" -s

Or should I also run a schedule task for calibre-parallel.exe to also shut down?

Code:

"C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre-parallel.exe" -s

So my question is how can I make sure calibre will shut down after an hour has passed? Anyone?

I still have the odd issue that Calibre runs hidden during the schedule task.

I did compare Glorfindel's xml file and mine, and the only major difference is that he is running Windows 7 (x86) and I am running Windows 7 Starter.

Hopefully the developer of Calibre can take a closer look into this problem. Or perhaps program calibre to be able to turn on and turn off, to compliment the news fetch feature for those like me that don't wish to have the app running 24/7.

05-21-2014, 11:33 AM	#29
JayKindle Connoisseur Posts: 69 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: Kindle Fire HD 8	UPDATE: Still not out of the woods. Today at 5:58 AM I had scheduled for Calibre to run, so it can start fetching News Feeds at 6:00am. I set it to shut down after if it runs for more than 2 hrs. It usually takes no longer than 20 minutes to fetch the news, and then send them to my kindle's email address, so my unit can later download them. Well, I did get successfully my news feeds on my kindle this morning. Went to check the PC after 8 am to see if calibre wasn't running anymore in Task Manager. It still was. Both calibre.exe and calibre-parallel.exe were running in Task Manager. I guess in idle, since it had finished completing the task, since I did get the only two news feeds I schedule for Wednesday to fetch. I even put another schedule task session for calibre to shutdown, in case it wouldn't. I had programmed it to run at 7:00 a.m. The code is: Code: "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre.exe" -s Or should I also run a schedule task for calibre-parallel.exe to also shut down? Code: "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre-parallel.exe" -s So my question is how can I make sure calibre will shut down after an hour has passed? Anyone? I still have the odd issue that Calibre runs hidden during the schedule task. I did compare Glorfindel's xml file and mine, and the only major difference is that he is running Windows 7 (x86) and I am running Windows 7 Starter. Hopefully the developer of Calibre can take a closer look into this problem. Or perhaps program calibre to be able to turn on and turn off, to compliment the news fetch feature for those like me that don't wish to have the app running 24/7.