10-05-2010, 04:13 PM | #1 |
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Just making sure
When I plug in my Kindle, and Calibre is running, its "getting list of books".
On my K1 I had so many it took a long time to do that....there was a post that told what to disable so that it bypassed this..... Was it preference--advanced--plugins--Kindle device interface by John Schimber--communicate with the kindle ebook reader? I'd like to do that with my K3 and just want to make sure I'm disabling the right thing (of course I'd disable for the k2/3)....Thanks! |
10-05-2010, 05:16 PM | #2 |
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It should be slow only once. Once it finishes the first (long) time, calibre keeps a copy of all the data it needs and can check very quickly.
Try letting if finish. Might take hours, but only once. |
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Would you please post the instructions the OP was trying to confirm? Thanks. |
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10-06-2010, 12:27 AM | #5 |
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It was probably the PDF reader plugin that was disabled to improve performance.
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Is it possible you could run calibre in debug mode when you connect the device? That would tell us what calibre is doing for that time, and might give enough information to fix whatever is broken. To run calibre in debug mode, do the following: 1) be sure that the kindle is not connected. 2) open a command line box however your OS does that, then type Code:
calibre-debug -g > caldebug.txt 4) wait until it is recognized and calibre is stable. Don't do anything else 5) quit calibre 6) post the file caldebug.txt here Feel free to look inside the file. There shouldn't be anything personal or private inside, but you might feel differently. |
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I think I should clarify. When I said I have 20 books, I meant on my Kindle. In my Calibre Catalog I have over 2,000, and a lot of pdfs. Would that be the problem? Too large of a database?
I will do the debug but wanted to clarify before I went any further. |
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A 2,000-book library is not particularly large. And in any event, the delay should be entirely dependent on the number of books on the device. If it isn't, then it would be very good to know why.
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Well, when I used the debug method it connected perfectly and took less than a minute.
Last night after I posted initially about the issue I tried it again three times and each time the job list screen showed the jobs taking at least four and a half minutes, and once was just a couple of seconds under five minutes. Since this faster connection was using the debug method I'll try again without. Something else it's started doing is not recognizing the device at all. I have to unplug it and plug it in again. I did try restarting my computer and Calibre when this behavior is exhibited but it doesn't seem to affect anything. Okay, tried it again without debug. The first time it didn't recognize the device at all. Second time [after unplugging and reconnecting] it took about a minute and a half to know that the device was there and then was pretty fast with the jobs. Well under the five minutes it's been taking, but still around two minutes by the time it sees the device and then processes the jobs. That still is much better than the five minutes I was dealing with yesterday. Since I hadn't tried to connect this morning before trying the debug I can't speak to anything that would have made a difference of this sort with the connection time. Nothing had changed since last night so it's a bit of a mystery. Thanks for your help. |
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Starting up... Started up in 6.1850001812 Job: 1 Get device information finished No details available. DEBUG: 0.0 USBMS: Fetching list of books from device. oncard= None DEBUG: 0.0 USBMS: dirs are: G:\ documents DEBUG: 0.8 USBMS: count found in cache: 38, count of files in metadata: 39, need_sync: True DEBUG: 0.8 USBMS: starting sync_booklists DEBUG: 0.9 USBMS: finished sync_booklists DEBUG: 0.9 USBMS: Finished fetching list of books from device. oncard= None DEBUG: 0.9 USBMS: Fetching list of books from device. oncard= carda DEBUG: 0.9 USBMS: Fetching list of books from device. oncard= cardb Job: 2 Get list of books on device finished No details available. DEBUG: 7.0 USBMS: starting sync_booklists DEBUG: 7.2 USBMS: finished sync_booklists Job: 3 Send metadata to device finished No details available. get_metadata cache: 3176 calls, 99.94% misses As I mentioned this connection was extremely fast, like I'm used to, and was unremarkable. The connection afterward was substantially slower but still an improvement. |
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Sure, but I don't connect very often. I keep just what I might want to read on the device and only connect when I need to add a new book. I could do a few unnecessary connections, now and again. How long would I run it on debug? |
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Did a reconnect and here's what I got that is similar to the last time I connected [after the first debug]. Jobs shows roughly 2 3/4 minutes.
Starting up... Started up in 4.64199995995 Job: 1 Get device information finished No details available. DEBUG: 0.0 USBMS: Fetching list of books from device. oncard= None DEBUG: 0.0 USBMS: dirs are: G:\ documents Failed to read MOBI cover Failed to read MOBI cover Failed to read MOBI cover Failed to read MOBI cover Failed to read MOBI cover Failed to read MOBI cover Failed to read MOBI cover Failed to read MOBI cover Failed to read MOBI cover Failed to read MOBI cover Unknown codepage 235802126. Assuming cp1252 Unknown codepage 235802126. Assuming cp1252 DEBUG: 129.5 USBMS: count found in cache: 0, count of files in metadata: 39, need_sync: True DEBUG: 129.5 USBMS: starting sync_booklists DEBUG: 133.3 USBMS: finished sync_booklists DEBUG: 133.3 USBMS: Finished fetching list of books from device. oncard= None DEBUG: 133.3 USBMS: Fetching list of books from device. oncard= carda DEBUG: 133.3 USBMS: Fetching list of books from device. oncard= cardb Job: 2 Get list of books on device finished No details available. DEBUG: 139.3 USBMS: starting sync_booklists DEBUG: 140.4 USBMS: finished sync_booklists Job: 3 Send metadata to device finished No details available. |
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I am beginning to suspect a hardware problem. Have you recently changed computers? USB cables? USB ports where you plug in the Kindle? Anything? |
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