New Buggins Firmware - 20100716

[Dave_S]

Originally Posted by Blossom

I just got back into town and finally have access to a card reader and just tested your script on my PP using 6/22 Lbook firmware and it works great!

Thanks so much for sharing your script with us.
Now I can clear the cache anytime I want.

Could you make a script to delete the files in the Restore_PC folder? It seems even when I delete a book the files stay in there till I manually delete them with my PC.

You are very welcome!
It is very gratifying to hear from a person that used the script with no problems!

Regarding the Restore_PC folder, I have never seen anything in mine, so items must be put in there with one of the other readers on the PocketPC???? I only use CoolReader. CoolReader does add book titles to RecentlyRead, but that is a file and not a folder. I can certainly make a script to clear the Restore_PC folder, since it would actually be identical to the cacheclear script except for the target of the deletion. Actually that action could be just one additional line in the cachclear script if you want those actions to be simultaneous. I can look into that tomorrow( it is night here now), and post it here or send it via an email attachment if nobody else on this thread wants it.

[Dave_S]

Originally Posted by Blossom

Could you make a script to delete the files in the Restore_PC folder?

The script below will clear the CoolReader cache and Restore_PC on both main memory AND the SD card. I added comments (##) to each line so that you know what each line does, in case you want to remove anything. You MUST use a Unix aware text editor like Notepad++ to copy the code below into a Unix text file. If a PC text editor like Notepad is used the script will not run, because Unix and Windows have different line ending conventions.

#!/bin/sh
## Clear the CoolReader cache on the SD card
rm -rf /mnt/crengine/.cache/*
## Clear the CoolReader cache in the onboard storage
rm -rf /home/crengine/.cache/*
## Clear Restore_PC on the SD card
rm -rf /mnt/Restore_PC/*
## Clear Restore_PC in the onboard storage
rm -rf /home/Restore_PC/*

[Blossom]

Dave thanks so much! I really appreciate it.
I used PSPad to save to Linux and it worked great.
Now I can clear the PC Restore folder wherever I'm at.

For some reason with Lbook it doesn't seem to clear the files in PC_Restore when I delete a book using the delete option. So having this script really makes it easy now to keep my PP nice and tidy.

[Spiffy]

Anything from Buggins in the past month?

[Dave_S]

Originally Posted by Spiffy

Anything from Buggins in the past month?

This is the last post that I saw from him 3 days ago on the-eBook.org:

I adjusted the opening of a file from the cache. Now it will be done checksum verification of all the blocks in the file is opened.
If errors are found, the cache file is deleted, and the book opens completely. Hopefully this will eliminate the need to manually remove the cache file ...

Another correction - to accelerate the closure of the book - an unnecessary entry in the cache file is removed.

Firmware'll post when accumulated more useful changes.
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Best regards,
Buggins

[booknut]

I was wondering the same thing, maybe he's on vacation, fighting fires, or just busy with other stuff, but he's been very quiet on all the boards - it's sometimes easy to forget that all the helpful people on these boards actually have a life outside of providing me with new firmware. Hey, maybe he's working on a firmware that allows you to search the book content on HD and SD...??? Sorry, I am just fantasizing again...