Quote:
Originally Posted by dieselnutjob
The second line of the .bat script says
set KINDLE=%LocalAppData%\Amazon\Kindle
what I actually have is c:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Amazon\Kindle
if I go to a command prompt and type
C:\>cd %LocalAppData%
I go to
C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local>
the third line of the script is
if not exist "%KINDLE%\application\Kindle.exe" goto :nokindle
so that means %LocalAppData%\Amazon\Kindle\applications\Kindle.e xe
which on my system is C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Amazon\Kindle\applic ations\Kindle.exe
I don't have an applications folder in there.
My Kindle.exe is at
C:\Program Files (x86)\Amazon\Kindle\Kindle.exe
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That script assumes that you have installed Kindle4PC in it's default location. The %LocalAppData% variable is a Windows environment variable pointing to X:\Users\username\AppData\Local where X is the drive letter and username is the local user name. See the
Complete list of environment variables on Windows 10 for a list of these variables.
Since you did not install Kindle4PC in it's default location, the script is unable to find it. You could try defining the Kindle variable as C:\Program Files (x86)\Amazon\Kindle and changing any references to remove the \application from the string. I don't have a Kindle4PC install in a non-standard directory so the storage and updates directories may be in different locations for you. If so, change the locations to match in the batch file. I went on the assumption that the data storage would be in the same location. Sample below for your kindle.exe install location.
Edit: the line reading "if exist "%KINDLE%\storage" if not exist "%KINDLE%\storage\" del /Q "%KINDLE%\storage" " doesn't really make sense but I didn't bother changing it.
Code:
@echo off
set KINDLE=%LocalAppData%\Amazon\Kindle
set KINDLE_EXE=%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\Amazon\Kindle
if exist "%KINDLE_EXE%\Kindle.exe" goto :found
if not exist "%KINDLE%\application\Kindle.exe" goto :nokindle
:found
rem still not sure what the following line is for
if exist "%KINDLE%\storage" if not exist "%KINDLE%\storage\" del /Q "%KINDLE%\storage"
if exist "%KINDLE%\updates" rmdir /S /Q "%KINDLE%\updates"
echo This file disables Kindle for PC downloads. > "%KINDLE%\updates"
echo Kindle for PC downloads are now disabled
goto :exit
:nokindle
echo Cannot disable downloads - Kindle for PC is not installed at expected location
:exit
pause