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abrogard · 04-22-2021, 11:34 AM

Thank you. I did that config change so it doesn't use calibre for pdf.

I find now that many pdf's in the calibre listing are empty. They are empty files.

If the empty are all in the start of the listing on calibre as they seem to be then I've got abou 2000 empty pdf's and 6000 that're okay. I think. I just read a small one there and I'm not sure if it was complete or not. Little piece by Emile Zola about the 'death of blahbla' and it could be seen as complete or not. 28 pages I think.

I should add these books are complete in the original which thankfully I've still got, I think. Certainly I have for many of them. I just checked a few and they're still there and okay.

How could that happen? My fault somehow? Shut down the computer when it was busy perhaps and it doesn't close down well?

There's no internal monitoring of its success in importing wholly or partly?

What to do? I'd like to ask for some advice regarding perhaps starting over again. should I just archive all my existing calibre libraries - which are now of doubtful integrity - and start again?

If I start again what is the best procedure given I've got multiple hard drives and thousands of files spread across them rather than all conveniently in one directory?

04-22-2021, 11:34 AM	#7
abrogard Groupie Posts: 168 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2017 Device: kindle	Thank you. I did that config change so it doesn't use calibre for pdf. I find now that many pdf's in the calibre listing are empty. They are empty files. If the empty are all in the start of the listing on calibre as they seem to be then I've got abou 2000 empty pdf's and 6000 that're okay. I think. I just read a small one there and I'm not sure if it was complete or not. Little piece by Emile Zola about the 'death of blahbla' and it could be seen as complete or not. 28 pages I think. I should add these books are complete in the original which thankfully I've still got, I think. Certainly I have for many of them. I just checked a few and they're still there and okay. How could that happen? My fault somehow? Shut down the computer when it was busy perhaps and it doesn't close down well? There's no internal monitoring of its success in importing wholly or partly? What to do? I'd like to ask for some advice regarding perhaps starting over again. should I just archive all my existing calibre libraries - which are now of doubtful integrity - and start again? If I start again what is the best procedure given I've got multiple hard drives and thousands of files spread across them rather than all conveniently in one directory? Last edited by abrogard; 04-22-2021 at 11:45 AM.