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Old 09-17-2010, 02:42 PM   #16
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I tried \Users\Me\Desktop but got: 'Desktop' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file.
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Old 09-17-2010, 02:47 PM   #17
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I tried \Users\Me\Desktop but got: 'Desktop' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file.
You left off the letters 'cd'. The command must be
cd \Users\Me\Desktop

Computers are so very literal.
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Old 09-17-2010, 03:00 PM   #18
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Right, got it.

So now I just plug the reader in and wait, is that right? I don't press enter or anything when the reader is in because calibre should debug on its own, automatically.
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Old 09-17-2010, 03:01 PM   #19
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Yes. Plug in the reader, wait under calibre recognizes it and stabilizes, then quit calibre. The command prompt will come back, and the .txt file will have the debug log in it.
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Old 09-17-2010, 03:04 PM   #20
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Oh, should calibre be running then, before the reader is plugged in?
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That would be best, although not strictly necessary, for the reasons explained a few posts back.
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Old 09-17-2010, 03:12 PM   #22
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Nothing so far... for some reason the reader asks if I want to scan it everytime I plug it in; whether that disrupts the commands I'm not sure.
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Old 09-17-2010, 03:26 PM   #23
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Nothing so far... for some reason the reader asks if I want to scan it everytime I plug it in; whether that disrupts the commands I'm not sure.
You won't see anything in the command box. Everything is being written to the .txt file. Calibre should behave as it usually does, recognizing the device, bringing up the device view, then waiting for you to do something. At that point, close calibre down. You will see the command prompt in the dos box, and you can zip/post the .txt file.
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Old 09-17-2010, 03:35 PM   #24
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Does the .txt file have to be open throughout all of this?
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Old 09-17-2010, 03:41 PM   #25
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I am not sure what you mean by 'open'.

When you run the calibre-debug command, the text file will be recreated. Calibre will write into it. It should not be open with notepad or wordpad during this process. Once you quit calibre, and get the command prompt back, you can open it to look at it & post it.
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Old 09-17-2010, 03:45 PM   #26
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I think I have something,

Starting up...
Started up in 2.40300011635
Job: 1 Get device information finished
No details available.
DEBUG: 0.0 PRS505: starting fetching books for card None
DEBUG: 0.0 USBMS: Fetching list of books from device. oncard= None
DEBUG: 0.0 USBMS: dirs are: K:\ database/media/books
DEBUG: 0.2 USBMS: count found in cache: 25, count of files in metadata: 25, need_sync: False
DEBUG: 0.2 USBMS: Finished fetching list of books from device. oncard= None
DEBUG: 0.2 Building XMLCache... {0: 'K:\\database\\cache\\media.xml'}
DEBUG: 0.2 Done building XMLCache...
DEBUG: 0.2 Updating JSON cache: 0
DEBUG: 0.2 Start build_id_playlist_map
DEBUG: 0.2 after cleaning playlists
DEBUG: 0.2 Finish build_id_playlist_map. Found 38
DEBUG: 0.2 Finished updating JSON cache: 0
DEBUG: 0.2 PRS505: finished fetching books for card None
DEBUG: 0.2 PRS505: starting fetching books for card carda
DEBUG: 0.2 USBMS: Fetching list of books from device. oncard= carda
DEBUG: 0.2 Building XMLCache... {0: 'K:\\database\\cache\\media.xml'}
DEBUG: 0.2 Done building XMLCache...
DEBUG: 0.2 PRS505: finished fetching books for card carda
DEBUG: 0.2 PRS505: starting fetching books for card cardb
DEBUG: 0.2 USBMS: Fetching list of books from device. oncard= cardb
DEBUG: 0.2 Building XMLCache... {0: 'K:\\database\\cache\\media.xml'}
DEBUG: 0.3 Done building XMLCache...
DEBUG: 0.3 PRS505: finished fetching books for card cardb
Job: 2 Get list of books on device finished
No details available.

It picks out 25 books, when really there's about 34 on the device.
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Old 09-17-2010, 04:02 PM   #27
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Yes, that is what I want to see.

What it tells me is that calibre could find 25 books in the Sony's main memory, located in the directory (or sub-directories of) K:\database\media\books. It also says that no books appeared or disappeared since the last time calibre connected.

What I need to know now is the full path of one book that is on the device but not among the 25 books that calibre found. To do this, with the device plugged in and calibre running, open a file explorer and go to K:\database\media\books. Look through the subfolders there until you find a book that is not on calibre's list. A book is a file, not a folder. Post the entire path, all the way back to K:

Random thought: are the missing books in formats other than ['epub', 'lrf', 'lrx', 'rtf', 'pdf', 'txt']? I am talking about the book's extension, the part after the period. If some books have extensions that are not listed, then calibre won't know that they are books.
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Old 09-17-2010, 05:13 PM   #28
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Oh dear...

Remember when you told me
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2) Your books in main memory must be in the folder 'database/media/books'. If they are not, then calibre will not find them.
?

Sorry, I obviously didn't check thoroughly enough.

Thanks a lot for being patient with me, I feel so dumb, lol.

I'll try to give you some karma for your help.

Cheers!

Edit: Sorry, I wasn't entirely sure how karma worked - I gave you 6 I think.
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Old 09-17-2010, 05:21 PM   #29
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Nothing so far... for some reason the reader asks if I want to scan it everytime I plug it in;
Hope I am not butting in but usually when the system wants you to scan for errors it means that files were not completely written to disk/device
In my limited experience with this, scaning fixes the problem and it stops bothering you to scan

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Old 09-17-2010, 05:27 PM   #30
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Cool, I'll try scanning next time then.

Thanks.
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