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Old 11-24-2009, 11:45 AM   #92
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Solution to Kindle for PC on Mac running Parallels

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Originally Posted by cubsfan61 View Post
I loaded Kindle for PC on Windows 7 running on Parallels Desktop for Mac. Every time I try to download one of my archived items to the home tab, I get an error message that the download failed.
Go to the shell (by opening Terminal) and type the following command:

mkdir "$HOME/Documents/My Kindle Content"

Then relaunch the Kindle for PC software and it will work. For some reason the software is unable to create the directory it needs and that causes the downloads to fail.
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