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Originally Posted by theducks
I recently updated my W7HP laptop to W10 (I did the desktop quite a bit ago)
I attached My TAB2, Calibre asked if I wanted to Manage
It appeared to work.... (the job whee spun)
Spoiler:
calibre, version 2.57.1
ERROR: Error: Error communicating with device
Cannot delete object: hr=2150236162 facility=42 error_code=2 description: Shutdown was already called on this object or the object that owns it.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 87, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 504, in _books
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\mtp\driver.py", line 283, in books
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\mtp\driver.py", line 309, in write_metadata_cache
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\mtp\driver.py", line 149, in put_calibre_file
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\mtp\windows\driver.py", line 35, in check_thread
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\mtp\windows\driver.py", line 437, in put_file
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\mtp\windows\driver.py", line 35, in check_thread
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\mtp\windows\driver.py", line 422, in delete_file_or_folder
WPDError: Cannot delete object: hr=2150236162 facility=42 error_code=2 description: Shutdown was already called on this object or the object that owns it.
The TAB went to sleep  (and I do not know how to stop that when connected to USB) |
I don't either. I don't believe you can.
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Calibre Companion works 
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My issue with Calibre Companion is that appears to be no way to get it to read existing metadata for stuff Calibre transferred via USB. It's only aware of transfers over Wifi. I have a
lot of eBooks on the tablet , but unless I'm missing something, it appears I would need to essentially start over from scratch to get everything visible to Calibre Companion, and I would have to set up a Calibre server process on the desktop for the tablet to connect to over Wifi. I'm in the early stages of investigating that.
But starting over from scratch on the collection on the tablet is not something I'm thrilled with doing. It's easier all told to simply boot into Ubuntu and run Calibre from there to do collection maintenance on the tablet.
I'm more interested in figuring out why connecting the tablet as USB Storage at all gives Win10 heartburn, and how I might fix it.
I still have Win7 available. It was on the HD when I bought the machine. I installed an SSD as boot drive, cloned Win7 to it, then partitioned the drive to create an ext4 slice for Ubuntu, and installed it. I left the Win7 installation on the HD. The end result was a multi-boot menu through grub2 offering Ubuntu, Win10,
and Win7. I may try booting into Win7 to see what results I get there.
I'm not quite at the point of bailing on Win10 and reverting to Win7, but it's an increasingly attractive option.
There are quirks on the tablet side: it currently thinks there isn't sufficient storage space to update things like the Google app, when the tablet claims there is over a GB of free application storage. This is apparently a known problem on the device I have, and the ultimate cure seems to be reset to factory default state and start over on configuration from scratch.
If I do that, I might just look at connecting through Wifi instead of USB and redoing my Calibre collection from scratch as well. It's also possible the connection issues I see connecting the tablet via USB to the desktop have roots in something on the tablet end, and redoing it might fix the USB connection issues with the desktop. IIRC, this all worked correctly in the early days after moving to Win10, and the new and different BSODs are a recent issue.
(I am also seeing DCP_WATCHGOG_EXCEPTION BSODs that seem to bite when I am browsing in a 64 bit beta version of Firefox, but do not occur in the 32 bit release version. Tablet woes are unrelated there.)
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Dennis