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Old 01-25-2022, 12:26 PM   #6
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Yup, so much for theory (thanks nonetheless!). Only, if installing software on a device like a tablet, one doesn’t often check (or care) what folders it creates/uses.

In my case, I experimented with several dictionaries, KOReader, Librera, ColorDict and GoldenDict on my Android 4.4.4 Tolino Tab 8", to find which would work best with KOReader and Librera.

So I still think some restriction to device folders scanned might be useful. Or, as I proposed in the bug report below, an initial selection by the user before the scan starts.

I feel that—for inital scans—a restriction to the "list of folders on the device to which to send e-books" might be in order, to avoid scanning the whole device. After that, only scan what has been selected in "Change scanned folders" and don’t auto-activate each new folder detected.

Thinking about it, that’s what I meant when saying "lock folders": Don’t auto-activate new ones. That should solve all these problems. For those who wish for "everything fully automated", maybe a setting like "Auto-activate new folders on device for scanning (Y/N)?"

Related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1943991 (Immense RAM usage due to scanning unneeded stuff; solved by manually editing mtp_devices.json.)

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