Why does Calibre keep losing books, and how can I stop it?

[Kunvp]

Dear From members,
For years I am having the same problem on a Windosw 7 laptop.
As far as i can remember, PDF files disappear.

I am intrested trying @Mex5150 solution, but i do noet ounderstand what is meant by:
" I had to rebuild the system due to something else completely unrelated to software problems. "

What is rebuilding the system?

Any other solution is very welcome.
Thank you.

[aleyx]

Originally Posted by Kunvp

What is rebuilding the system?

Basically: wiping out your hard drive, then reinstalling your operating system, all your applications, and all your personal files.

Depending on the context, it may involve changing some or all of the hardware as well.

Needless to say, this is not trivial. I would not recommend it without expert assistance.

N.

[Mex5150]

Originally Posted by Kunvp

Dear From members,
For years I am having the same problem on a Windows 7 laptop.
As far as i can remember, PDF files disappear.

I am interested trying @Mex5150 solution, but I do not understand what is meant by:
" I had to rebuild the system due to something else completely unrelated to software problems. "

What is rebuilding the system?

As aleyx said:

Originally Posted by aleyx

Basically: wiping out your hard drive, then reinstalling your operating system, all your applications, and all your personal files.

Depending on the context, it may involve changing some or all of the hardware as well.

And mine involved both OS and hardware changes. This was a big job, and *REALLY* not worth trying just to fix a small problem. Plus as you are on a laptop the hardware changes are tricky LOL

Originally Posted by Kunvp

Any other solution is very welcome.
Thank you.

Are the files in a shared folder? If so the script I wrote to turn sharing off while Calibre was running may be able to be modified to help. Here it is:

dropbox stop
calibre
dropbox start

This is in a file called 'calibre.sh' and I run that every time I want to use Calibre and not the standard icon.

This is how it works, line one stops dropbox (it's dropbox that shares the folder in my case), I could have set dropbox to pause syncing for the duration, but as dropbox does nothing useful while not syncing, it may as well be shut down. Line two runs Calibre. Line three starts dropbox up again. The script will not go to line three until line two is finished (Calibre shut down after using it) so it does everything we want.

Without knowing more about your set-up it's hard to give anything more than very vague advice.

~Mex