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Old 11-29-2020, 03:15 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
What's the difference between drag/drop into Calibre and copying to the auto-import directory? Not much and drag/drop is actually easier.
The main difference is that DeDRM doesn't work with the autoadd folder.

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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
I played with this and what I found was that downloading directly to the auto-add folder was not a good idea. My browser of choice is Firefox which creates a 0 byte file with the file name and then downloads to a temp file. During the download, the temp file contents seem to be copied to the filename file at odd intervals. If the auto-add triggers during the download before the process is completed, the results were, hmmm..., interesting.

Best to download to another directory and only copy the files to the auto-add folder when the download is completed.
Chromium-based browsers (Chrome obviously, MS Edge, I use Vivaldi myself) create a .crdownload file in the download location, which is then renamed to the proper extension once it finishes. I've found that Calibre tends to work okay with this for the most part. It was messing around with a third-party download manager (downloading a batch of game manuals) that didn't do this that I found the autoadd problem.

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