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rolgiati · 05-14-2020, 05:14 PM

I keep having problems when adding or converting book, with and error message "no space left on device".

My /tmp partition has only 500 mb free.

Is there a way to force Calibre to use another directory than /tmp to store its temporary files, for instance using ~/tmp ?

05-14-2020, 05:14 PM	#1
rolgiati Groupie Posts: 168 Karma: 31650 Join Date: May 2011 Location: Asuncion (Paraguay) Device: In the house, 3 K3 in use, 4 more in storage, and a K5 for testing	Use another directory than /tmp for temporary files ? I keep having problems when adding or converting book, with and error message "no space left on device". My /tmp partition has only 500 mb free. Is there a way to force Calibre to use another directory than /tmp to store its temporary files, for instance using ~/tmp ?