[latepaul]

Hi stisev,

I got the bat file working. There are a couple of issues with it, which to be fair to itimpi is probably because things have changed since 2012.

Firstly

START /belownormal Calibre --with-library --start in tray "%CALIBRE_LIBRARY_DIRECTORY%"

should be

START /belownormal calibreportable --start-in-tray --with-library "%CALIBRE_LIBRARY_DIRECTORY%"

Note that we run calibreportable not Calibre - because it's looking for a calibre.exe in a Calibre2 directory, or failing that the system path somewhere, but the portable exe is called calibreportable.exe.

Also the added "-"s between "start" "in" and "tray", as it's all one command line flag.

And the --with-library takes an argument so the "%CALIBRE_LIBRARY_DIRECTORY%" needs to follow it. As it was, calibre kept creating an empty library in a directory called "--start"!


Secondly, this part

IF EXIST U:\eBooks\CalibreLibrary (
	SET CALIBRE_LIBRARY_DIRECTORY=U:\eBOOKS\CalibreLibrary
	ECHO LIBRARY FILES:      U:\eBOOKS\CalibreLibrary
)
IF EXIST CalibreLibrary (
	SET CALIBRE_LIBRARY_DIRECTORY=%cd%\CalibreLibrary
	ECHO LIBRARY FILES:      %cd%\CalibreLibrary
)

is looking for a library at U:\eBooks\CalibreLibrary, if that's not found it looks for a CalibreLibrary subdirectory of the current directory. Since neither exist on my PC CALIBRE_LIBRARY_DIRECTORY never got set.

I changed it to:

IF EXIST data\library (
	SET CALIBRE_LIBRARY_DIRECTORY=%cd%\data\library
	ECHO LIBRARY FILES:      %CALIBRE_LIBRARY_DIRECTORY%
)

which is where the current portable apps calibreportable puts its library (i.e. \PortableApps\calibrePortable\data\library). If I were using this for real I might ditch the "IF EXIST" part or at least have a valid fallback value for CALIBRE_LIBRARY_DIRECTORY.

I didn't take it further - this works - but neither CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY nor CALIBRE_OVERRIDE_DATABASE_PATH get set for similar reasons. I think the layout of portable apps has changed since 2012.

HTH