Calibre Companion prerelease 3.3.4d

[chaley]

CC prerelease 3.3.4d has been published and will available soon to people who are members of the CC prerelease program.

This prerelease contains changes to support SD cards on Android 4.4 (KitKat). The choose folder settings dialogs give different options if the device is running Kitkat. I am starting the prerelease cycle now because the CC support and review "noise" caused by Google's changes has hit the "dull roar" level.

In addition to the Kitkat changes, this prerelease contains the following:

• Improved performance scanning for books to move when changing folders.
• Improved performance when scanning for missing books.
• More robust checking for network disconnects.
• [BUG FIX] Fix out of memory crash when searching
• [BUG FIX] Fix strange crash triggered by Kindle Fires.
• [BUG FIX] Don't crash in book details if calibre URL identifiers are malformed.

There is no database upgrade with this prerelease.

As noted above, the reason for this prerelease is to check that nothing is broken with library folder selection in both Kitkat and non-Kitkat devices. Any comments you might have about these changes will be gratefully accepted.

I hope to make this a production release within a week.

[kaufman]

Installed and it seems to be working well. I like the new interface to the sd card.

One issue. As a test, I selected the SD card even though my books were already in the destination directory. It went through the whole "moving your books" thing for awhile and in the end it had deleted all my books. When moving books, you might want to add a check to make sure the from and to directories are not the same folder.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by kaufman

Installed and it seems to be working well. I like the new interface to the sd card.

Good.

One issue. As a test, I selected the SD card even though my books were already in the destination directory. It went through the whole "moving your books" thing for awhile and in the end it had deleted all my books. When moving books, you might want to add a check to make sure the from and to directories are not the same folder.

That test is already there.

The test is to compare the paths to the folder. I suspect that the path you manually set up used a different mount point (or something), making it look different from the one that Android returns. For example, you might have used /mnt/sdcardX/... while Android used /mnt/storage/X/....

Unfortunately there isn't any reliable way to compare such paths to see if they are the same file. The standard code, getCanonicalPath(), can return two unequal values. Instead I will need to play games with the actual files themselves.

Thanks for pointing out the problem!

[kaufman]

I just found a small issue.

The "Books with missing files" screen does not respect the "Move connect to menu" setting.

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by kaufman

I just found a small issue.

The "Books with missing files" screen does not respect the "Move connect to menu" setting.

I have the old version on my phone, and it has the same issue.

[kaufman]

Originally Posted by Purple Lady

I have the old version on my phone, and it has the same issue.

I didn't think it was new. I just noticed it for the first time and thought I should report it.