Remember jobs that didn't complete?

Elaine T · 12-31-2024, 07:11 PM

Hi,
So I had a bunch of things downloading. Then my computer froze and nothing unfroze it until I rebooted (the machine, not Calibre). Of course the downloads hadn't finished. And now I'm trying to reconstruct the list.

Would it be possible to make an option to remember jobs that didn't complete properly, even through a hard reboot? It's one of those things that one mostly wouldn't need, but would be really nice sometimes.

unkn0wn · 01-01-2025, 12:37 AM

why not just remember the jobs for the past maybe day or two and keep the logs around?

kovidgoyal · 01-01-2025, 12:40 AM

That would require storing the logs and job descriptions somewhere other than a temp folder and then creating UI for reviewing past jobs (or at least repopulating the jobs dialog at startup with past jobs). And then expiring old job logs, etc. Rather too much work for the return at least for me, patches welcome.

Elaine T · 01-01-2025, 11:06 AM

Thanks for the answer. I'd had a feeling it was more work that I knew.

compurandom · 01-11-2025, 09:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

That would require storing the logs and job descriptions somewhere other than a temp folder and then creating UI for reviewing past jobs (or at least repopulating the jobs dialog at startup with past jobs). And then expiring old job logs, etc. Rather too much work for the return at least for me, patches welcome.

Let me suggest an alternative...

Calibre already lets me choose how often to download news sources, so it must be remembering when it last tried.

I want a button in addition to "download all scheduled" that is something like "download overdue" that retries sources that failed or never tried but the time to download has passed.

I guess you'd have to store last successful download time in addition to last attempt...

Also, it would be nice if the failure detection was better. When every URL in a source fails to download, it would be nice if it flagged the download as failed instead of generating a epub full of "failed..." pages..

Use case: I've had my ISP fail a few times and I have the choice of either closing calibre or watching it generate a bunch of dud epubs.

12-31-2024, 07:11 PM	#1
Elaine T Enthusiast Posts: 47 Karma: 33664 Join Date: Jun 2015 Device: kindle paperwhite	Remember jobs that didn't complete? Hi, So I had a bunch of things downloading. Then my computer froze and nothing unfroze it until I rebooted (the machine, not Calibre). Of course the downloads hadn't finished. And now I'm trying to reconstruct the list. Would it be possible to make an option to remember jobs that didn't complete properly, even through a hard reboot? It's one of those things that one mostly wouldn't need, but would be really nice sometimes.

01-01-2025, 12:40 AM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,027 Karma: 27109258 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	That would require storing the logs and job descriptions somewhere other than a temp folder and then creating UI for reviewing past jobs (or at least repopulating the jobs dialog at startup with past jobs). And then expiring old job logs, etc. Rather too much work for the return at least for me, patches welcome. Last edited by kovidgoyal; 01-01-2025 at 11:37 AM.

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