Periodicals are not automatically deleted

[oecherprinte]

Hi,

I subscribed to an epaper version of a daily newspaper which I convert
into a kindle periodical using calibre. Normally, old issues of the periodicals
should be moved into the "back issues" folder and be automatically deleted
after a while.

However, no such moving or deletion takes place. All of the old issues since
mid january still clog up my kindle.

What could be the problem?

By the way, the newspaper is Sueddeutsche Zeitung from Germany and I am using the recipe which is shipped with the regular calibre version.

Thanks,

Jens

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by oecherprinte

Hi,

I subscribed to an epaper version of a daily newspaper which I convert
into a kindle periodical using calibre. Normally, old issues of the periodicals
should be moved into the "back issues" folder and be automatically deleted
after a while.

However, no such moving or deletion takes place. All of the old issues since
mid january still clog up my kindle. [...]

The User Guide certainly says that back issues beyond 7 should vanish but my experience is that this only applies to paid subscriptions, not to anything that is formatted as a newspaper.

I have been using

"A version of today's Guardian or Observer for the Kindle"
http://mythic-beasts.com/~mark/rando...an-for-kindle/

and have had to delete manually.
Do you have a cite for "back issues folder" ?

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by oecherprinte

Hi,

I subscribed to an epaper version of a daily newspaper which I convert
into a kindle periodical using calibre. Normally, old issues of the periodicals
should be moved into the "back issues" folder and be automatically deleted
after a while.

However, no such moving or deletion takes place. All of the old issues since
mid january still clog up my kindle [...]

OK let me have another go at answering this.

If you change the calibre generated metadata title of your newpaper to be the same every day then on the second day "Back issues(2)" will appear next to Archive in your Home listing and, hopefully, when Back issues reach 7 the next new issue will trigger automatic deletion as described in the Kindle User Guide.

http://mythic-beasts.com/~mark/rando...an-for-kindle/

has just switched to the "same title every day" mode and Back Issues() automagically appeared.

The old issues from before this change had to be deleted by hand since the Kindle software thinks each was a single issue for a different newspaper.

[oecherprinte]

That sounds promising. Thanks. I will try it tonight. Do I have to change the title in the recipe or is this something I can do in the calibre menus?

Cheers,

Jens