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oakridge · 04-30-2015, 04:20 AM

Wine with updated Calibre and a shared data partition
I have a dual-boot machine, Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04, with a shared partition called Data. I am using Calibre to sort a very large collection of documents, over 100,000, collected over many years, in different formats and different arrangement of first name, surname and title. Quite a job, but Calibre copes wonderfully.

This question has also been posted on the Ubuntu Forum with over 100 'reads' but no replies yet.

That is the small problem the big problem is that I am tackling the job in three ways, one one Ubuntu 12.04, one on Windows 7 and possibly one on another machine with Ubuntu 14.04. The Windows 7 and Ubuntu 14.04 Calibre installations are 2.26 and the one on 12.04 was a very early version. I have just upgraded the last version to a Wine installation of 2.26, but now I have lost access to the Data partition in Calibre. I have a similar problem with the other machine in that the 'Open File' window of any application does not 'see' the network. To open a file you must go to the Home Folder and open a file from there. This solution does not work with Calibre.

This is a bit like trying to describe a spiral staircase without moving your hands, but I hope you have got the idea.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Malcolm

04-30-2015, 04:20 AM	#1
oakridge Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2012 Device: Kobo, PC	Wine with updated Calibre and a shared data partition Wine with updated Calibre and a shared data partition I have a dual-boot machine, Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04, with a shared partition called Data. I am using Calibre to sort a very large collection of documents, over 100,000, collected over many years, in different formats and different arrangement of first name, surname and title. Quite a job, but Calibre copes wonderfully. This question has also been posted on the Ubuntu Forum with over 100 'reads' but no replies yet. That is the small problem the big problem is that I am tackling the job in three ways, one one Ubuntu 12.04, one on Windows 7 and possibly one on another machine with Ubuntu 14.04. The Windows 7 and Ubuntu 14.04 Calibre installations are 2.26 and the one on 12.04 was a very early version. I have just upgraded the last version to a Wine installation of 2.26, but now I have lost access to the Data partition in Calibre. I have a similar problem with the other machine in that the 'Open File' window of any application does not 'see' the network. To open a file you must go to the Home Folder and open a file from there. This solution does not work with Calibre. This is a bit like trying to describe a spiral staircase without moving your hands, but I hope you have got the idea. Any advice would be much appreciated. Malcolm