[glennWilliams]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Adding books requires approximately three times the disk space used by the actual book files during the adding process. SO either add in small batches or use an environment variable to move the calibre temp dir to a disk with more space.

hi

can i just get clarification here?

I see calibre adding to the TMP folder during the add process. are you saying that it only adds to the actual library at the end of the add process, so before the end the books are in two places; original and tmp. OR is it adding to TMP, then a process adding from TMP to library an only deleting TMP at end?

im asking if I can start deleting TMP files during the add process to free up some space.

if the first way, does this also mean that if I quite an add part way through that files will not be in the library, still only in temp?

if the second way, are files left in TMP folder (even though they are already in library) because of file locks or something?

is it not possible to get from original location, move to temp, then add to library and delete temp once added. rather than waiting until end of add.

I just want to know what the process is at it will change how I add books in future. (ive only just started using app this last month)

Im interesting in getting involved in coding too. have just grabbed code to have a look through.

I know u also have a 'auto add from folder' feature but this also seems to use a lot of disk space if the auto add folder has a large number of books added to it.

thanks

glenn