Orange pins (pushpins or thumbtacks?) - Page 2

DoctorOhh · 11-09-2013, 06:36 PM

I do not believe the size would change. If you don't want them follow the advice in post 10 and remove them. This will eliminate them until you restart. Or remove the exception in the duplicate finder plugin as explained.

Nyssa · 11-12-2013, 10:54 PM

Hi. I've read the first few posts and I still don't understand the purpose of the orange pins. I'm using an iMac, and although I have "right-click" capability enabled, nothing happens when I try to right click on the pin. I checked to see if it had anything to do with duplicates, but there was only 1 duplicated book out of the 3 that I tried.

Further info would be greatly appreciated.

theducks · 11-12-2013, 11:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nyssa

Hi. I've read the first few posts and I still don't understand the purpose of the orange pins. I'm using an iMac, and although I have "right-click" capability enabled, nothing happens when I try to right click on the pin. I checked to see if it had anything to do with duplicates, but there was only 1 duplicated book out of the 3 that I tried.

Further info would be greatly appreciated.

Don't right click ON the pin,
Right-click on the the data on that line The pin menu is the top of the list

DoctorOhh · 11-12-2013, 11:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nyssa

Hi. I've read the first few posts and I still don't understand the purpose of the orange pins. I'm using an iMac, and although I have "right-click" capability enabled, nothing happens when I try to right click on the pin. I checked to see if it had anything to do with duplicates, but there was only 1 duplicated book out of the 3 that I tried.

The orange pushpins represent books that have been temporarily marked. These marks are used via many plugins and via the Temp marker feature of calibre. Previous to calibre version 1.6 this feature was implemented via a plugin and some plugins like Find Duplicates used temp marker to track items. At that time all temp marks were invisible to the user.

Quote:

Release: 1.6 [11 Oct, 2013]

New Features

Temporary marking of books in the library This allows you to select books from your calibre library manually and mark them. This 'mark' will remain until you restart calibre, or clear the marks. You can easily work with only the marked subset of books by right clicking the Mark Books button. To use this feature, go to Preferences->Toolbars and add the 'Mark Books' tool to the main toolbar.

If you start up your library and find books marked it is mostly likely because you marked certain books in the Find Duplicates plugin as duplicate exemptions. Those exemptions will always (or until plugin changes are made) have pushpins. You can go to the Find Duplicates menu and remove the exemptions and the pushpins will go away.

You didn't find the Temp Marker menu item when you right clicked because this feature requires the user to add it to whichever menu or toolbar they wish via Preferences -> Toolbars.

I hope this helped.

Nyssa · 11-13-2013, 01:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DoctorOhh

The orange pushpins represent books that have been temporarily marked. These marks are used via many plugins and via the Temp marker feature of calibre. Previous to calibre version 1.6 this feature was implemented via a plugin and some plugins like Find Duplicates used temp marker to track items. At that time all temp marks were invisible to the user.

If you start up your library and find books marked it is mostly likely because you marked certain books in the Find Duplicates plugin as duplicate exemptions. Those exemptions will always (or until plugin changes are made) have pushpins. You can go to the Find Duplicates menu and remove the exemptions and the pushpins will go away.

You didn't find the Temp Marker menu item when you right clicked because this feature requires the user to add it to whichever menu or toolbar they wish via Preferences -> Toolbars.

I hope this helped.

Yes, I think I got it. Thank you.

cybmole · 02-26-2014, 06:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Yeah me too, but that's because I put Mark Books into my context menu, if I remove it then there's nothing there.

I was hoping a right click on the pin might tell me the provenance of the pin.

BR

same here - a pin has appeared for 1 book, & there's no right click menu able to remove it.
I don't have mark books in main menu - never have, don't want to have to.....

and it is not a duplicate - It might briefly have been a duplicate before I deleted something ...

how do I lose the pin without removing and re-adding the offending title ?

BetterRed · 02-26-2014, 06:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cybmole

same here - a pin has appeared for 1 book, & there's no right click menu able to remove it.
I don't have mark books in main menu - never have, don't want to have to.....

and it is not a duplicate - It might briefly have been a duplicate before I deleted something ...

how do I lose the pin without removing and re-adding the offending title ?

@cybmole

Try Alt/Shift/M - there are kb shortcuts you can tweak

BR

cybmole · 02-26-2014, 06:57 AM

i tried a restart of calibre instead & the pin went away by itself, but thanks.

phossler · 02-26-2014, 07:56 PM

Using v1.25 (64 bit)

OBE : I can't see any push pins or a Menu option to Mark book. How do I get to them?

Never mind - I had customized the tool bar

gteague · 11-12-2017, 05:24 PM

searching for a way to get rid of these (i just activated an 'auto-add' folder and checked the box to mark the new additions) i came across this thread. i tried everything in here and finally gave up and decided to go back to the preference to remove the mark when a helpful tooltip informed me these are temporary and disappear when calibre is restarted.

seems a kludge, but hey! i sure don't want to look at them once i've cleaned them up.

/guy

BetterRed · 11-12-2017, 06:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gteague

searching for a way to get rid of these (i just activated an 'auto-add' folder and checked the box to mark the new additions) i came across this thread. i tried everything in here and finally gave up and decided to go back to the preference to remove the mark when a helpf
informed me these are temporary and disappear when calibre is restarted.

seems a kludge, but hey! i sure don't want to look at them once i've cleaned them up.

/guy

In Preferences->Toolbars add the Mark Books tool to Toolbar(s) or Menu(s),

And/or in Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts->Mark Books configure a keyboard shortcut for Clear all marked books (e..g - I use ctrl+alt+M) Ψ²

BR

gteague · 11-12-2017, 06:45 PM

hey, thanks mucho mate!

that calibre dude is a great programmer! i've programmed off and on but i never had the title. but when i was adding the toolbar item i went to the shortcuts to see if /clear marked/ was there was already i was thinking to myself: 'the logical thing to do would be to put a dropdown arrow on the toolbar item as some have and put the option to clear or toggle the mark in there'. and guess what--that's exactly what was done.

tks for making my life easier. i'm cleaning up all my ebooks for my new oasis (2017) and somewhere along a system restore i lost all my metadata, so i'm tediously going through my library of over 2600 one by one restoring that and it's extremely helpful to have the marks as it's easier than setting up a custom column.

i'm up to #250 as i type this, but i've been at it for 5-7 days off and on, so it's going to take awhile seeing as i'm a lot picky and quite ocd.

tks again, /guy

02-26-2014, 06:57 AM	#23
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	i tried a restart of calibre instead & the pin went away by itself, but thanks. Last edited by cybmole; 02-26-2014 at 07:00 AM.

02-26-2014, 07:56 PM	#24
phossler Wizard Posts: 1,071 Karma: 412718 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Valley Forge, PA, USA Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Using v1.25 (64 bit) OBE : I can't see any push pins or a Menu option to Mark book. How do I get to them? Never mind - I had customized the tool bar Last edited by phossler; 02-26-2014 at 08:00 PM.

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11-09-2013, 06:36 PM	#16
DoctorOhh US Navy, Retired Posts: 9,864 Karma: 13806776 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: North Carolina Device: Icarus Illumina XL HD, Nexus 7	I do not believe the size would change. If you don't want them follow the advice in post 10 and remove them. This will eliminate them until you restart. Or remove the exception in the duplicate finder plugin as explained.

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Nyssa Series Addict Posts: 6,180 Karma: 167189477 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Florida, USA Device: Kindle Paperwhite (2nd Gen)	Hi. I've read the first few posts and I still don't understand the purpose of the orange pins. I'm using an iMac, and although I have "right-click" capability enabled, nothing happens when I try to right click on the pin. I checked to see if it had anything to do with duplicates, but there was only 1 duplicated book out of the 3 that I tried. Further info would be greatly appreciated.

11-12-2017, 05:24 PM	#25
gteague Zealot Posts: 104 Karma: 5658 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: dfw Device: kindle v1.0	searching for a way to get rid of these (i just activated an 'auto-add' folder and checked the box to mark the new additions) i came across this thread. i tried everything in here and finally gave up and decided to go back to the preference to remove the mark when a helpful tooltip informed me these are temporary and disappear when calibre is restarted. seems a kludge, but hey! i sure don't want to look at them once i've cleaned them up. /guy

11-12-2017, 06:45 PM	#27
gteague Zealot Posts: 104 Karma: 5658 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: dfw Device: kindle v1.0	hey, thanks mucho mate! that calibre dude is a great programmer! i've programmed off and on but i never had the title. but when i was adding the toolbar item i went to the shortcuts to see if /clear marked/ was there was already i was thinking to myself: 'the logical thing to do would be to put a dropdown arrow on the toolbar item as some have and put the option to clear or toggle the mark in there'. and guess what--that's exactly what was done. tks for making my life easier. i'm cleaning up all my ebooks for my new oasis (2017) and somewhere along a system restore i lost all my metadata, so i'm tediously going through my library of over 2600 one by one restoring that and it's extremely helpful to have the marks as it's easier than setting up a custom column. i'm up to #250 as i type this, but i've been at it for 5-7 days off and on, so it's going to take awhile seeing as i'm a lot picky and quite ocd. tks again, /guy