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Old 07-15-2016, 01:41 AM   #33
Mex5150
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: To the left of your body, to the right of your mind, lost in a riddle.
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Originally Posted by Kunvp View Post
Dear From members,
For years I am having the same problem on a Windows 7 laptop.
As far as i can remember, PDF files disappear.

I am interested trying @Mex5150 solution, but I do not understand what is meant by:
" I had to rebuild the system due to something else completely unrelated to software problems. "

What is rebuilding the system?
As aleyx said:
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Originally Posted by aleyx View Post
Basically: wiping out your hard drive, then reinstalling your operating system, all your applications, and all your personal files.

Depending on the context, it may involve changing some or all of the hardware as well.
And mine involved both OS and hardware changes. This was a big job, and *REALLY* not worth trying just to fix a small problem. Plus as you are on a laptop the hardware changes are tricky LOL

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Originally Posted by Kunvp View Post
Any other solution is very welcome.
Thank you.
Are the files in a shared folder? If so the script I wrote to turn sharing off while Calibre was running may be able to be modified to help. Here it is:
Code:
dropbox stop
calibre
dropbox start
This is in a file called 'calibre.sh' and I run that every time I want to use Calibre and not the standard icon.

This is how it works, line one stops dropbox (it's dropbox that shares the folder in my case), I could have set dropbox to pause syncing for the duration, but as dropbox does nothing useful while not syncing, it may as well be shut down. Line two runs Calibre. Line three starts dropbox up again. The script will not go to line three until line two is finished (Calibre shut down after using it) so it does everything we want.

Without knowing more about your set-up it's hard to give anything more than very vague advice.

~Mex
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