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Old 07-31-2018, 06:11 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
It is a problem with the Sd card, SD card's are notoriously unreliable. calibre will have to scan all the files on the card to search for books, and read metadata from those files, which puts a lot more strain on it than simply opening it in windows explorer or similar. To test that for yourself simply copy the contents of the card onto an internal disk and try using connect to folder with that.
I'd ordinarily agree, but I just tried an experiment.

The Calibre version on the desktop is the current 64bit release. But I also have the current 32bit Calibre Portable release installed on a thumbdrive.

I put the microSD card into the adapter and plugged it into the desktop. As before, Win10 could see it, assigned drive letter N:, and would let me run a file systems check reporting no errors, and drill down onto the card and see the directory structure and files.

I ran the portable version on the desktop from the thumbdrive. I pointed it at the master Calibre library on the desktop, and at the folder to connect to on the microSD card.

Calibre Portable has no problem with the card, successfully inventoried the contents, and I'm in it now transferring files.

If this was an SD card problem, I would expect Calibre Portable to have the same problems as the desktop version.

I'd still love to know what the desktop version's problem is, and suggestions on debugging will be gratefully accepted.
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