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I just noticed what seems to be a strange behavior on Mac OS Mojave.
If I have calibre open and then expand or minimize a folder in my "auto-add" location, calibre tries to add a file called "Unknown" and it ends up having no format and no data. I have been able to reproduce this repeatedly. I suspect this is happening because calibre is recognizing the .DS_Store files that are being changed by the operating system. |
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calibre only auto adds files not folders. And IIRC I told it to ignore .DS_Store anyway, but maybe I am misremembering. Is there anything inside .DS_Store?
Also by default it will only add known ebook file types unless you told it to add all file types in Prefrences->Adding books->Automatic adding |
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Understood. The DS_Store can safely be ignored because all it has in it is stuff like window location and folder state (expanded/minimized) if I recall correctly.
Thanks for the pointer to adding books. I checked there and it was set to import all files, so that's what was doing it. Thank you for a great program! |
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Windows user here, desktop.ini's, thumbs.db's, and DSStore's are noxious weeds; the latter being the most prevalent, see ==>> How to disable the creation of .DS_Store files for Mac users' folders - TechRepublic
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