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Adoby · 10-04-2019, 05:41 PM

This stopped working in calibre 4.

I run Ubuntu Mate 19.04 and I have the root fs on a NVMe drive and /home on a SATA SSD. To improve performance I have .cache on the NVMe (as /opt/.cache) and symlink that folder to ~/.cache.

I started doing this years back when I had the root fs on my first SATA SSD and /home on spinning rust. And I've kept doing it since then when the root fs is on a faster drive than /home. And it has never been any problems in any apps, including calibre. (I also have /tmp in RAM using tmpfs.)

However after upgrading to calibre 4 the calibre ebook reader can't open ebooks any more. I get this error:

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/opt/.cache/calibre/ev2/t/tmpezZNaM does exist and can also be accessed via the symlink as /home/anders/.cache/calibre/ev2/t/tmpezZNaM

By moving back .cache to ~/.cache instead of symlinking, everything is fine again. I can use the new calibre viewer fine.

But if possible I would like to continue be able to place ~/.cache on the fastest drive.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1846834

10-04-2019, 05:41 PM	#1
Adoby Handy Elephant Posts: 1,737 Karma: 26785684 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Southern Sweden, far out in the quiet woods Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra	calibre 4 linux viewer symlinked .cache fail This stopped working in calibre 4. I run Ubuntu Mate 19.04 and I have the root fs on a NVMe drive and /home on a SATA SSD. To improve performance I have .cache on the NVMe (as /opt/.cache) and symlink that folder to ~/.cache. I started doing this years back when I had the root fs on my first SATA SSD and /home on spinning rust. And I've kept doing it since then when the root fs is on a faster drive than /home. And it has never been any problems in any apps, including calibre. (I also have /tmp in RAM using tmpfs.) However after upgrading to calibre 4 the calibre ebook reader can't open ebooks any more. I get this error: /opt/.cache/calibre/ev2/t/tmpezZNaM does exist and can also be accessed via the symlink as /home/anders/.cache/calibre/ev2/t/tmpezZNaM By moving back .cache to ~/.cache instead of symlinking, everything is fine again. I can use the new calibre viewer fine. But if possible I would like to continue be able to place ~/.cache on the fastest drive. https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1846834 Last edited by Adoby; 10-04-2019 at 05:45 PM.