Uploading Books to Calibre -- Calibre says Books Transferred -- But Books Not There

[MyKindleGoodies]

Hi!

I'm having a problem that I can't seem to solve.

Please let me know if you need additional information.

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Calibre ver 1.2
running on Win7

Kindle Fire 1
System ver 6.3.2_user_4110520
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Here's my process

• Basically, I connect my Kindle Fire to my computer & Calibre using USB
• My device is detected by Calibre
• I highlight the book(s) I want to send to my Fire
• I click "send to device"
• Calibre finishes sending my book(s)
• A green checkmark & "Main" appears in the Column called "On Device" beside the book(s) sent to the device
• I disconnect my Kindle Fire & go to the Documents section (or ANY section) or the Carousel and they are not there

In Calibre, if I go to Device --> Show books in Main Memory of the device,
-- The book(s) I just transferred show up and I'm able to open them in the Calibre viewer

On my computer, if I open a Folder to the Kindle Device (H: ) Drive and look in the folder called Documents,
-- The book(s) I just transferred show up as both an .APNX and .MOBI file

BUT when I try to find the book on my Kindle Fire device, it's not there on either the carousel or under Documents. I check under every section -- nada.

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I have tried removing the Kindle device from Calibre and re-adding/reconfiguring it -- several times

I'm using the latest version of Calibre, but I had this issue on the last version as well

I have been able to send books to the Kindle Fire with earlier versions of Calibre with no problems. I only noticed it with the last 2 version of Calibre that I had installed.

I am able to email books to my Kindle with no issues.

I am able to transfer documents such as PPT presentations via USB with no issues.

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I did notice that Win7 brings up a dialog box every time I connect my device asking Do you want to scan and fix Kindle (H
"There might be a problem with some files on this device or disc. This can happen if you remove the device or disc before all files have been written to it."
--> Scan and fix
--> Continue without scanning

I always choose Continue without scanning because I've been assuming that Win7 has no idea what the data on a Kindle Fire is supposed to look like ... I know it's a computer, but it's using a different OS and I didn't want to take any risks.
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I'm not sure what else to try at this point.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

[Barbara1955]

AWZ format is the Only one my Fire HD seems to see.

[MyKindleGoodies]

Originally Posted by Katie1

AWZ format is the Only one my Fire HD seems to see.

Just as an FYI, I don't have a Kindle Fire HD. I have a Kindle Fire 1 (the very first Fire shipped).

Books that are sent over to my Kindle Fire are being sent as .APNX & .MOBI files.

BUT...

I checked and books that I email to my Kindle come over as .MBP and .PRC formats and books that come directly from Amazon are also in .MBP and .PRC formats.

I don't have any .AWZ files on my Kindle at all -- maybe that's a change for the newer HD version.

Thanks!

[kovidgoyal]

All calibre does is copy files to the device. Once that is done, it is up to the device to find and open them. It may be that your device is having issues witha particular file, so I would try the following

1) reboot the device
2) if that does not work, delete all files from the device, and send them back one by one until you come to the problem file.

[MyKindleGoodies]

Kovid:

Thanks.

Can you tell me what file types/extensions that Calibre sends to a Kindle Fire (1st model shipped) by default?

I send .MOBI books to my device from my HDD via email and when I look in the folders on my Kindle Fire, they are showing up as .MBP and .PRC files with names such as OUU3HZ65CIZQZKHIVTUUHS2UVPBPN6CI_PDOC.

Books that are sent to my device directly from Amazon are also in .MBP and .PRC formats.

When books come over from Calibre, they come over as .APNX & .MOBI and their Book Names that have been set up in Calibre are intact (which I much prefer).

Is there something in Calibre's configuration that I have set up wrong?

I'll remove the books that I had Calibre send over when I noticed they weren't being seen.

If someone can verify the file types that are supposed to be sent over from Calibre, I'd appreciate it!

[kovidgoyal]

MOBI and PRC are the same thing. The Kindle Fire most definitely supports MOBI files.

[MyKindleGoodies]

Well -- I did some further research and discovered this post
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=141722

The important thing I found in that post was that *.MOBI files can be renamed *.PRC and the Kindle Fire device should be able to read it.

Sooooooooooo -- I tested it.

I went into my Kindle folder and renamed a book title sent over from Calibre from .MOBI to .PRC

The device now recognizes that the book is in the Main memory where it ignored it before. I can read the book and the cover shows up, etc.

I don't know if this information is going to be of any use to anyone else -- but I thought I'd share what I'd discovered.

I'm still going to delete books from the Kindle as Kovid recommends and add them back and see if there's a "problem child" causing all this mayhem.

But at least I found a workaround in the meantime.

[gbm]

Originally Posted by MyKindleGoodies

Hi!


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I did notice that Win7 brings up a dialog box every time I connect my device asking Do you want to scan and fix Kindle (H
"There might be a problem with some files on this device or disc. This can happen if you remove the device or disc before all files have been written to it."
--> Scan and fix
--> Continue without scanning

I always choose Continue without scanning because I've been assuming that Win7 has no idea what the data on a Kindle Fire is supposed to look like ... I know it's a computer, but it's using a different OS and I didn't want to take any risks.
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Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

That indicates you have a problem with the FAT partition on your Kindle. If you are getting it every time you connect then backup and let windows do a scan and fix--will only do a scan of the FAT partition. If problems are found windows will fix them.

bernie

[MyKindleGoodies]

Originally Posted by gbm

That indicates you have a problem with the FAT partition on your Kindle. If you are getting it every time you connect then backup and let windows do a scan and fix--will only do a scan of the FAT partition. If problems are found windows will fix them.

bernie

Bernie:

Thanks so much (that was really bothering me) -- I just ran the scan and windows found no errors! At least I know that it's OK to run that if it comes up again.

As a note, I got this message the first time I tried it:

Windows can't check the disk while it's in use
Do you want to dismount this volume first? Note: All opened handles to this volume will become invalid.

--> Force a dismount
--> Cancel

SOLUTION:
For anyone else that is getting this and you aren't sure what to do: Close out of Calibre, disconnect your USB cable and then reconnect it again. When the "Run Scan" option comes up this time you will be able to run the Disk Scan without the above scary message.