Auto-add not working in specific circumstances - upload via SFTP

olliegg · 10-10-2022, 10:33 AM

Hi all,

I've got Calibre and Calibre-web running on my QNAP NAS, which is all working great - but I'm trying to use the auto-add feature. When i manually go into the GUI of my NAS and upload a book, Calibre sees it and sorts it and is happy. However, when I upload a book to the folder through SFTP, Calibre doesn't notice any change - this seems very strange?

Has anybody got any ideas?

kovidgoyal · 10-10-2022, 12:07 PM

presumably whatever method sftp is using to put file s in the directory doesnt work with whatever method Qt is using to monitor the directory. All I can suggest is make sure the book files are in the auto-add directory, not a subdirectory and they have proper read/write permissions for whatever user calibre is running as.

10-10-2022, 10:33 AM	#1
olliegg Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2022 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Auto-add not working in specific circumstances - upload via SFTP Hi all, I've got Calibre and Calibre-web running on my QNAP NAS, which is all working great - but I'm trying to use the auto-add feature. When i manually go into the GUI of my NAS and upload a book, Calibre sees it and sorts it and is happy. However, when I upload a book to the folder through SFTP, Calibre doesn't notice any change - this seems very strange? Has anybody got any ideas?

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10-10-2022, 12:07 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,600 Karma: 28548974 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	presumably whatever method sftp is using to put file s in the directory doesnt work with whatever method Qt is using to monitor the directory. All I can suggest is make sure the book files are in the auto-add directory, not a subdirectory and they have proper read/write permissions for whatever user calibre is running as.