Searching with Calibre not in a list now

book64 · 11-04-2015, 10:53 AM

When I used to search for an author or a book in Calibre it used to just show a complete list of what I asked for. All together.
Now it shows them all highlighted, but I have to scroll through my whole library to see them one by one.
Any help welcome.

theducks · 11-04-2015, 11:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by book64

When I used to search for an author or a book in Calibre it used to just show a complete list of what I asked for. All together.
Now it shows them all highlighted, but I have to scroll through my whole library to see them one by one.
Any help welcome.

Preferences: Searching: (second item down)

Some older plugins (not activly maintained) needed this mode and did not restore the old setting when done

.

polli · 11-05-2015, 02:06 AM

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Originally Posted by theducks

Preferences: Searching: (second item down)

Some older plugins (not activly maintained) needed this mode and did not restore the old setting when done

.

Thank you.
Im not at pc till later but clicking preferences then searching will that solve it?
Or do i have to click something else else once in searching?

It used to be fine & I always download plug ins if calibre tells me.

eschwartz · 11-05-2015, 02:11 AM

Sticky: Search is showing all books with some highlighted! How do I fix this?

BetterRed · 11-05-2015, 02:27 AM

The Plugin that first caused this problem was Find Duplicates, and as far as I know it still causes the problem. Simplest thing to do is to show the Blues Bar button ==>> Some plugins, can change calibre's search highlighting and click it as and when necessary

BR

polli · 11-05-2015, 06:20 AM

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Originally Posted by BetterRed

The Plugin that first caused this problem was Find Duplicates, and as far as I know it still causes the problem. Simplest thing to do is to show the Blues Bar button ==>> Some plugins, can change calibre's search highlighting and click it as and when necessary

BR

I have been using find duplicates quite a lot just lately. Maybe thats my problem. Will try tonight and report back.

Calibre is a program i could not do without!

book64 · 11-05-2015, 11:51 AM

Thanks all - it worked yippee !!!!
I now get the search results I want

Is it normal for calibre to take ages to start?

I have only 750 books in it now. As moved the bulk of the ones I have read to an overflow folder.

theducks · 11-05-2015, 12:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by book64

Thanks all - it worked yippee !!!!
I now get the search results I want

Is it normal for calibre to take ages to start?

I have only 750 books in it now. As moved the bulk of the ones I have read to an overflow folder.

Lots of deletions will leave invisible crumbs in the DB.
Run Library maintenance, it has a vacuuming stage as part of the check. Do checkout the FAQ at calibre-ebook.com (click Help in Calibre to get close to that)

HarryT · 11-05-2015, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by book64

Is it normal for calibre to take ages to start?

I have only 750 books in it now. As moved the bulk of the ones I have read to an overflow folder.

There was a very long thread on this started by me a few months ago, the upshot of which was that, at least on some Windows machines, the long delay on startup was caused by the libraries used by Calibre triggering some kind of scan of Windows system files as they initialised for the first time. The solution was to run the Windows "Disk Cleanup" tool with "Administrator" rights and select the "Windows Update Cleanup" option. This, for me, reduced Calibre's startup time from about a minute and half down to a few seconds.

Hope this is of some help to you,

polli · 11-06-2015, 01:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theducks

Lots of deletions will leave invisible crumbs in the DB.
Run Library maintenance, it has a vacuuming stage as part of the check. Do checkout the FAQ at calibre-ebook.com (click Help in Calibre to get close to that)

Thanks but Where is the Library Maintenance?

I do look at the Calibre webpage but find it very hard to understand.

polli · 11-06-2015, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by HarryT

There was a very long thread on this started by me a few months ago, the upshot of which was that, at least on some Windows machines, the long delay on startup was caused by the libraries used by Calibre triggering some kind of scan of Windows system files as they initialised for the first time. The solution was to run the Windows "Disk Cleanup" tool with "Administrator" rights and select the "Windows Update Cleanup" option. This, for me, reduced Calibre's startup time from about a minute and half down to a few seconds.

Hope this is of some help to you,

Hi is that the one that takes hours? Not looked at that for ages

HarryT · 11-06-2015, 02:05 PM

It takes a very long time, yes.

theducks · 11-06-2015, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by polli

Thanks but Where is the Library Maintenance?

I do look at the Calibre webpage but find it very hard to understand.

Right-click the Library Icon on the toolbar

HarryT · 11-06-2015, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by theducks

Right-click the Library Icon on the toolbar

Without a device connected.

theducks · 11-06-2015, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by HarryT

Without a device connected.

Since that is my typical state, I keep forgetting that it must be done that way

11-04-2015, 10:53 AM	#1
book64 Love reading Posts: 322 Karma: 1000352 Join Date: Jan 2012 Device: Samsung 8 mobile. Samsung 8 and 10 Tablets	Searching with Calibre not in a list now When I used to search for an author or a book in Calibre it used to just show a complete list of what I asked for. All together. Now it shows them all highlighted, but I have to scroll through my whole library to see them one by one. Any help welcome.

11-05-2015, 11:51 AM	#7
book64 Love reading Posts: 322 Karma: 1000352 Join Date: Jan 2012 Device: Samsung 8 mobile. Samsung 8 and 10 Tablets	It worked! Thanks all - it worked yippee !!!! I now get the search results I want Is it normal for calibre to take ages to start? I have only 750 books in it now. As moved the bulk of the ones I have read to an overflow folder.

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