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Originally Posted by chaley
The fact that your library is on a network drive ...
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As others have pointed out, I said I was NOT on a networked drive, I mentioned it because I know it can cause problems, easy mistake to make though, as it is often the culprit ;^>
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Originally Posted by aleyx
What's your OS? Calibre version?
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Sorry, should have said that, Doh! I’m Running Linux (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to be precise), Calibre is 2.47.0, the drive they are on is formatted to ext4
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Originally Posted by BookJunkieLI
Are you using it with Dropbox...
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Well, yes and no. They are in a folder that is normally shared on/in DropBox, however I start Calibre with a script that cuts autosync runs Calibre, then restarts autosync when I quit out of Calibre. A habit I got into using Scrivener (that gets very upset with autosync) so anything I use that needs (or may need) a steady non-autosync dive on a drive that is normally shared, I use this script with. So effectively as far as Calibre is concerned, it's a completely normal, non-networked, non-autosynced drive.
I have just tested the start-up script and can confirm autosync is stopped for the duration of Calibre running. So no closer to a solution then ;^<
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Originally Posted by chaley
That said, the fact that the OP sees case differences in lost books implies that there is a problem doing renaming.
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Sometimes it does do this with renaming (I think I can recall an instance of that happening), but normally it's when I hit convert. It could be that that's doing it, or it could be something before hand that I don't notice until convert tells me the book is missing though.
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Using a NAS is one reason this can happen. Another reason is a mismatch between the file system and the operating system. Problems like this will arise if you run windows using a case-sensitive file system, or if you run Linux with a non case-sensitive file system, or if you are using a portable drive and moving it between operating systems. I don't have enough experience with macs to speculate whether case sensitivity problems might arise.
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Linux file system accessed by a Linux OS. Permanent non-removable (well not without a screwdriver LOL) drive. I do have several other OS's on the machine, but they are all safely tucked away on virtual machines that don't have access to that particular drive.
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Bottom line: be sure that the file system type is native for the OS you are running, and do not move your library storage device between dissimilar operating systems.
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When Calibre is
not running an android device will occasionally access one of the libraries directly, but I can't see how this would be the culprit as books also vanish on libraries it doesn't have access to.
Don't know about you guys, but I really stumped by it ;^/
~Mex