A new feature for the interface?

[daisygabina]

Hello.

I convert all my ebooks in epub, and what I would like is a button where I can delete the original file and save on disk space.

I buy all my books in epub format: from all romance, coffee shop romance, smashwords, blushing, and the other file format from amazon (I don't really care about that coz I've got Kindle desktop), but mostly I got them in other formats from my forums, and they are like a damn anvil in my drive.

So maybe, pleeease, Kovid's team could look onto that?

Thank You

[eschwartz]

You can delete all but a specified format from selected books, in the submenu for deleting books.

[daisygabina]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

You can delete all but a specified format from selected books, in the submenu for deleting books.

I did that and they keep reappearing

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by daisygabina

I did that and they keep reappearing

@daisygabina - that's odd

Are you sure you used the Remove books->Remove all formats form selected books, except option, would have looked something like this



I always use the other option, and select the formats I do want to delete.

Is your library on Dropbox or something similar ? Or are you running Time Machine or some other continuous synch/backup software such as RealTime Synch

BR

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by daisygabina

I did that and they keep reappearing

"keep reappearing" implies that they initially get deleted the way you want.

As for their mysterious reappearance, something other than calibre is doing that. calibre doesn't restore items from the Trash ever, much less for no good reason.

[theducks]

Cloud Sync?

But that might cause DB corruption.

When you use the menu shown, that removes the entry for that Format from the DB
AND
Removes the file

If the book format shows up in the Metadata Formats:
Something is restoring the entire Library (DB and Book)

[Lizj1]

Daisygabina,

when you say the orignal file, do you mean in the Calibre folder, or in some other place where it existed before you added it to Calibre? I don't think Calibre can delete or alter files outside its own directory structure.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Lizj1

Daisygabina,

when you say the orignal file, do you mean in the Calibre folder, or in some other place where it existed before you added it to Calibre? I don't think Calibre can delete or alter files outside its own directory structure.

Move the books to the (user assigned) Auto-Add folder.
After Calibre sucks them into the Library, it puts those into the trash

[Lizj1]

theducks, maybe some people do things differently from you, and maybe they even have REASONS for that.

[daisygabina]

Well, I didn't have time to try your recom, now I have a bigger problem: where I transferred more than 2000 bks in calibre (which I erased from the original folder], closed it normally @ 15.30 yesterday.
This morning, all my blasted books are gone from the interface and the calibre library in my drive, some of them I've downloaded and collected since 96 when books were scanned or fans edited them with adobe (I mean they typed the books online covers and all), not going to get any of them easily in stores.
I'm trying to locate the event viewer on the blasted windows 10, am still looking. Now I'm afraid to use calibre and don't know and trust any other application that will do the job.

if someone can answer, I'm open to anything and everything. And VI: the thing keep shutting down on me, calibre error for the past two months

[BetterRed]

6 Ways to Open Event Viewer in Windows 10

Do you not have a backup somewhere, maybe you took one before you upgraded to W10?

BR

[daisygabina]

Windows upgraded last year.
My own was old (2006), I've had trouble finding components for the motherboard, so I transferred my books on the external disk of my son, then when he needed his disk transferred them to this pc.
No backup.
I've been meaning to upload the books on the different accounts on line: 2shared, 4shared, mediafire, I keep postponing and six years later, I'm still here.

[daisygabina]

That's what I could recover from the log. What's not in plain English is all Greek to me. Maybe you can see. At this point no point crying over spilt milk: those books are lost

Spoiler:

Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 13-Jul-16 2:32:20 PM
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Sovereign
Description:
Faulting application name: calibre.exe, version: 2.61.0.0, time stamp: 0x5775e0d5
Faulting module name: Qt5Gui.dll, version: 5.4.1.0, time stamp: 0x5510e4f9
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000507eb
Faulting process id: 0x1a48
Faulting application start time: 0x01d1dccac62c8f06
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2\calibre.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2\DLLs\Qt5Gui.dll
Report Id: b046fff2-f096-43e2-9c7f-00cf7741c23f
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Application Error" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>100</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2016-07-13T10:32:20.544846100Z" />
<EventRecordID>26983</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>Sovereign</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>calibre.exe</Data>
<Data>2.61.0.0</Data>
<Data>5775e0d5</Data>
<Data>Qt5Gui.dll</Data>
<Data>5.4.1.0</Data>
<Data>5510e4f9</Data>
<Data>c0000005</Data>
<Data>000507eb</Data>
<Data>1a48</Data>
<Data>01d1dccac62c8f06</Data>
<Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2\calibre.exe</Data>
<Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2\DLLs\Qt5Gui.dll</Data>
<Data>b046fff2-f096-43e2-9c7f-00cf7741c23f</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

Log Name: Application
Source: Windows Error Reporting
Date: 13-Jul-16 2:32:28 PM
Event ID: 1001
Task Category: None
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Sovereign
Description:
Fault bucket 108261188533, type 1
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: calibre.exe
P2: 2.61.0.0
P3: 5775e0d5
P4: Qt5Gui.dll
P5: 5.4.1.0
P6: 5510e4f9
P7: c0000005
P8: 000507eb
P9:
P10:

Attached files:
C:\Users\Daisy\AppData\Local\Temp\WER4468.tmp.WERI nternalMetadata.xml

These files may be available here:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive \AppCrash_calibre.exe_ab4f9aad63353d205dc37112d2bb c36f4e1bef6_6123a401_171760aa

Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: b046fff2-f096-43e2-9c7f-00cf7741c23f
Report Status: 0
Hashed bucket: 05139ba040908d16a45f52c2061709b0
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Windows Error Reporting" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1001</EventID>
<Level>4</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2016-07-13T10:32:28.220010400Z" />
<EventRecordID>26984</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>Sovereign</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>108261188533</Data>
<Data>1</Data>
<Data>APPCRASH</Data>
<Data>Not available</Data>
<Data>0</Data>
<Data>calibre.exe</Data>
<Data>2.61.0.0</Data>
<Data>5775e0d5</Data>
<Data>Qt5Gui.dll</Data>
<Data>5.4.1.0</Data>
<Data>5510e4f9</Data>
<Data>c0000005</Data>
<Data>000507eb</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
C:\Users\Daisy\AppData\Local\Temp\WER4468.tmp.WERI nternalMetadata.xml</Data>
<Data>C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportA rchive\AppCrash_calibre.exe_ab4f9aad63353d205dc371 12d2bbc36f4e1bef6_6123a401_171760aa</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>0</Data>
<Data>b046fff2-f096-43e2-9c7f-00cf7741c23f</Data>
<Data>0</Data>
<Data>05139ba040908d16a45f52c2061709b0</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

[BetterRed]

@daisygabina - do a search for 'metadata.db' if its found your books should be somewhere nearby, otherwise do a search for epubs. I find, when searching for data, its best to search from File Explorer rather than via a Win+S search.

BR

[PeterT]

Heck BR; I tend to search from the command line!