Thread: does sideloading to a Sony ereader with Calibre work well with Linux?
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Old 12-18-2014, 09:23 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell View Post
If USB drives are MTP devices, well,that's when things started getting snarky for me. The eReader was mounted and while I was even just trying to put a pdf from a usb drive into Calibre Calibre was delaying and all-around snarky and finally my usb drive was no longer recognized by the computer. I finally got the pdf into calibre and when I sideloaded it into my ereader the ereader got stuck loading and I got this message:

Spoiler:
The SONY XML cache "'/media/gregory/495C-0DBA/database/cache/media.xml'" does not exist. Try disconnecting and reconnecting your reader.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 87, in run
File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 502, in _books
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/prs505/driver.py", line 201, in books
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/usbms/driver.py", line 249, in books
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/prs505/driver.py", line 209, in sync_booklists
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/prs505/driver.py", line 197, in initialize_XML_cache
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/prs505/sony_cache.py", line 102, in __init__
DeviceError: The SONY XML cache "'/media/gregory/495C-0DBA/database/cache/media.xml'" does not exist. Try disconnecting and reconnecting your reader.


So is the moral of the story to avoid transferring stuff to Calibre via a usb drive WHILE THE EREADER IS MOUNTED? (Because when the eReader was no longer mounted the usb drive worked great with Calibre.)
Houston, We have a problem.
Maybe your device can't keep up (this should not happen) and falls offline.
Send that puppy for service or replacement.

Without Calibre running. Use the OS to save a Big file (that will fit) to the device.
Does that survive the transfer?
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