No space on temp = unknown error

[Giuseppe Chillem]

Hi,
yesterday I saved a lot of books on a directory of my HD.
The temp dir was full and I did not recognize this fact.
Calibre returned the error:

Unknown error saving file ID=xxxxxx

There were few ids even if the unsaved files where over 150.

Is there a way to better handle this situation and have a more verbose error message ?

[kovidgoyal]

No space on temp is not a common enough error for me to bother trying to special case it, patches welcome.

[Giuseppe Chillem]

Oh, lazy programmer ! :-)

Kovid, I had 3,5 GB on the temp directory. Saving 400 books has eaten them all. It is more common than you think.

However I have a question: is there a way to set the temp dir inside calibre ?

Actually I use the command line with:

SET CALIBRE_TEMP_DIR="MyPath" and then start your program.

I have still not found a way to perform this task inside calibre.

PS: Happy new year !

[kovidgoyal]

If you want to put your temp dir in RAM for a psychological performance gain, you have to live with the consequences. 3.5GB of temp space is not even in the same multiverse as typical amounts of temp space on personal computers.

[Giuseppe Chillem]

Kovid, it is the space available on my "C" partition ;-)

However you have not answered my other question...

[theducks]

is "MyPath" a placeholder for posting?
That path needs to be fully qualified (and writable from/with your user rights)
eg "c:\temp\calibre"

[speakingtohe]

3.5 gig seems dangerously little free space on any partition. (especially if it is your operating system position?) Perhaps you could free up some more?

Helen

[PeterT]

Originally Posted by speakingtohe

3.5 gig seems dangerously little free space on any partition. (especially if it is your operating system position?)

LOL...

I remember my first hard drive; a massive 10 Meg!

[speakingtohe]

Originally Posted by PeterT

LOL...

I remember my first hard drive; a massive 10 Meg!

Mine too, seemed so huge at the time Was $900 wholesale in 1987 I think.

[jgaiser]

Originally Posted by PeterT

LOL...

I remember my first hard drive; a massive 10 Meg!

I had it bit better. 40meg and it cost a fortune.

And I agree. 3.5gig for a windows operating system is dangerously low.

[theducks]

I had 2@ whoppers: Seagate ST251: 40MB $450 each, in a Zero Wait-state 10MHz AT clone. A smokin' fast Paradox (DOS) Database machine

[Giuseppe Chillem]

Originally Posted by theducks

is "MyPath" a placeholder for posting?
That path needs to be fully qualified (and writable from/with your user rights)
eg "c:\temp\calibre"

My path is the TEMP dir I whish to use in calibre.

Actually from the command line a enter

SET CALIBRE_TEMP_DIR=Z:\_CalibreTemp\

And then start calibre

Is there a way to do this from the inside of calibre to set it automatically at startup ?

[Giuseppe Chillem]

Originally Posted by speakingtohe

3.5 gig seems dangerously little free space on any partition. (especially if it is your operating system position?) Perhaps you could free up some more?

Helen

I know. I had over 15GB but when I have purchased my iPad, ITunes used it for backup :-(

[jgaiser]

Originally Posted by Giuseppe Chillem

I know. I had over 15GB but when I have purchased my iPad, ITunes used it for backup :-(

How large is your hard drive (15GB is a darn small drive)? If 15GB is your home partition, what is the rest of the drive used for? If you have other larger partitions, why aren't you using those?

[Adoby]

Originally Posted by Giuseppe Chillem

My path is the TEMP dir I whish to use in calibre.

Is there a way to do this from the inside of calibre to set it automatically at startup ?

Most likely not. But why not set that variable automatically during OS startup? That is the normal way to handle this. I assume that there is some functionality in Windows for this purpose? I guess that you are using some version of Windows?