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endemion06463 · 09-25-2021, 11:24 AM

So I let calibre scan my light novel folder. It adds the books to calibre. Well actually it's copying them into calibre's library aka calibre's program folder. Which messes up the filename by the way. And takes forever...

There are 917 books in the library afterwards. There is a file number discrepancy there, as there are 937 files (±12GB) all .epub and a few .txt. So what's happening there?

So now I go ahead and convert them from epub to epub in bulk. Then it starts queuing, which also is slow. But worst yet at 67% it claims "device has no more room". So first I thought I ran out of disk space. So I moved calibre (portable) to a larger partition (with at least a few hundred GB's free). Well that turned out to be unnecessary as the same thing happened again. Seems like it can only que a limited number of books. Kinda weird for a bulk feature. So now I'm doing it in steps. First I tried 444 well didn't work same error. Then I tries 100, that worked, then I tried 200, also worked. Now I'm trying 300.

So lets say, after finishing all that. Then what? How do I get those converted files back to where they originally came from!?

09-25-2021, 11:24 AM	#9
endemion06463 Enthusiast Posts: 32 Karma: 2137662 Join Date: Apr 2019 Device: Likebook P78	So I let calibre scan my light novel folder. It adds the books to calibre. Well actually it's copying them into calibre's library aka calibre's program folder. Which messes up the filename by the way. And takes forever... There are 917 books in the library afterwards. There is a file number discrepancy there, as there are 937 files (±12GB) all .epub and a few .txt. So what's happening there? So now I go ahead and convert them from epub to epub in bulk. Then it starts queuing, which also is slow. But worst yet at 67% it claims "device has no more room". So first I thought I ran out of disk space. So I moved calibre (portable) to a larger partition (with at least a few hundred GB's free). Well that turned out to be unnecessary as the same thing happened again. Seems like it can only que a limited number of books. Kinda weird for a bulk feature. So now I'm doing it in steps. First I tried 444 well didn't work same error. Then I tries 100, that worked, then I tried 200, also worked. Now I'm trying 300. So lets say, after finishing all that. Then what? How do I get those converted files back to where they originally came from!?