Thank you.
I can see the new KOBO disk image in the list of devices attached to my iMac computer. I can see in Calibre it is attached as well because Calibre shows on the LHS a column 'On Device'.
When I select a book in Calibre to send to the KOBO I right click on the book and select the 'Send to Device' line. This results in the communications error.
I have a work around solution and I do have books on the KOBO now. The work around solution is to go to the Calibre Library folder, open it, select a book I want (not a folder) and drag it into the KOBO disk into the folder I have determined by trial and error normally hold the books. This work around works, but bypasses the Calibre app. I prefer to use the app! I like it!!
I can see the 'restrictive' Permission when I 'Get Info' for the KOBO disk image. I do not know how to modify it, nor whether or not this is the problem. I would think this restrictive permission is pretty universal.
I just want to be able to use Calibre.
I have used it for years on my very old Pocketbook ereader which is now retired.
David
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Originally Posted by davidfor
Firstly, it is not the Kobo OS doing anything at all. When you connect these devices to a computer, the books partition is presented as a disk. The OS is accessing the filesystem directly, and the OS on the device is not involved at all.
As the others have said, it is almost definitely a problem with how the MAC is mounting the device. The error you are seeing is a permissions error. It even says it in the error. It means that calibre is not being allowed to write to the device. The question is why.
Based on discussion here over the years, the most likely reason is the device isn't being mounted as writeable. You can test this by trying to copy a file to the device without using calibre. Find the device by whatever method you use in the MAC and copy any file you want there. I expect that to fail. But, if it works, try to create a directory. The error is happening when calibre is trying to create a directory, so it might be permission to do that is missing.
The alternative is that the MAC is restricting the permissions that calibre has. I believe this is possible, but, have no idea how to do it.
Also, is this the first error you see? I'm a bit surprised there isn't an earlier error when calibre is trying to get the list of books.
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