[chaley]

Originally Posted by weedfreak

I can longer get Calibre to transfer files to my Boox reader.

Calibre correctly detects the Boox is attached and identifies the main memory and the SD card. Attempting to transfer a book to the SD card give this error

ERROR: Error: Error communicating with device
(13, 'Permission denied')

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 67, in run
  File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 325, in _upload_books
  File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/devices/usbms/driver.py", line 176, in upload_books
  File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/devices/usbms/device.py", line 869, in create_upload_path
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/media/usb1/May, Julian'

I note that you are putting the books in the root of the SD card. If it is formatted with FAT16, then the number of files/directories in the root is severely limited. You have probably hit that limit.

Change your save template to add a subdirectory.

For further discussion, see the thread https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...121#post992121

Attempting to send to the main memory gives this -

No idea what is happening here. Run calibre in debug mode and post the messages that come out. To run calibre that way, start a terminal and run 'calibre-debug -g' (no quotes). Capture the output and post it.