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Old 09-09-2008, 06:39 PM   #196
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If you're that particular about how you want to work, I suggest you either write your own app or contribute patches to calibre. Otherwise, you'll never find an app that does everything exactly the way you want.

Supporting an auto-add folder is easy enough, and I can make the series field editable in the main GUI, not quite as easy as drag and drop, but almost as good.
That why I said I was planning on writing my own app

Not just an auto-add folder, an auto-add folder _tree_. More accurately, don't duplicate data. Use the data from where it's found (like the Sony Software does). My book collection is over 120MB, now it's 240MB.

Making the series field editable would be pretty helpful, or having a series number column that's easy to set would be even better.

Creating patches would require me to learn Python, something I have refused to do because I frown upon languages that put semantic value on whitespace, and it would require me to somehow get a python development system working in windows, since my FreeBSD box is text only. I gave up last time after the third "Replace this file in the standard language folder with my subtly different version"

I might try again sometime, but it would be much easier for me to write something from scratch.
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Old 09-09-2008, 06:59 PM   #197
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That why I said I was planning on writing my own app

Not just an auto-add folder, an auto-add folder _tree_. More accurately, don't duplicate data. Use the data from where it's found (like the Sony Software does). My book collection is over 120MB, now it's 240MB.
While that might work well for you, in general it's a lot more robust for the app to maintain the data in its own tree. For example, what if a user adds books from a removable drive? Just search these forums for all the posts about the sony software losing books.
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Old 09-09-2008, 07:00 PM   #198
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I've uploaded another new build of b10 for os x with the libiconv library bundled. Please try that.
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Old 09-09-2008, 07:06 PM   #199
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Send me the file.
I've emailed the Mobi file. I zipped it to be a little smaller for emailing.
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Old 09-09-2008, 07:22 PM   #200
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No change with b10 number 3 - still fails to start with the same error and trace:

10/09/2008 00:17:32 [0x0-0x142142].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[2780] Traceback (most recent call last):
10/09/2008 00:17:32 [0x0-0x142142].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[2780] File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/__boot__.py", line 208, in <module>
10/09/2008 00:17:32 [0x0-0x142142].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[2780] _run('main.py')
10/09/2008 00:17:32 [0x0-0x142142].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[2780] File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/__boot__.py", line 135, in _run
10/09/2008 00:17:32 [0x0-0x142142].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[2780] execfile(path, globals(), globals())
10/09/2008 00:17:32 [0x0-0x142142].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[2780] File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/main.py", line 14, in <module>
10/09/2008 00:17:32 [0x0-0x142142].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[2780] from calibre.ebooks.metadata.meta import get_metadata
10/09/2008 00:17:32 [0x0-0x142142].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[2780] File "calibre/ebooks/metadata/meta.pyo", line 11, in <module>
10/09/2008 00:17:32 [0x0-0x142142].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[2780] File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5/site-packages.zip/calibre/ebooks/metadata/lit.py", line 12, in <module>
10/09/2008 00:17:32 [0x0-0x142142].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[2780] File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5/site-packages.zip/calibre/ebooks/lit/reader.py", line 13, in <module>
10/09/2008 00:17:32 [0x0-0x142142].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[2780] ImportError: dlopen(/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5/lxml/etree.so, 2): Symbol not found: _libiconv_close
10/09/2008 00:17:32 [0x0-0x142142].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[2780] Referenced from: /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5/lxml/etree.so
10/09/2008 00:17:32 [0x0-0x142142].net.kovidgoyal.calibre[2780] Expected in: dynamic lookup
10/09/2008 00:17:32 calibre[2780] calibre Error
10/09/2008 00:17:32 calibre[2780] calibre Error
An unexpected error has occurred during execution of the main script

ImportError: dlopen(/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5/lxml/etree.so, 2): Symbol not found: _libiconv_close
Referenced from: /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5/lxml/etree.so
Expected in: dynamic lookup
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Old 09-09-2008, 07:26 PM   #201
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I've uploaded another new build of b10 for os x with the libiconv library bundled. Please try that.
Downloaded the file dated 09-Sept-2008 and still get the same error message immediately after starting calibre.

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Old 09-09-2008, 07:31 PM   #202
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I installed beta 10 a short time ago and when I try to add an HTML file, I get the following error. I've looked through all the posts and don't see anyone else with the same issue. I'm using Vista Home Premium (32 bit).

expected string or buffer
Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 469, in add_books
File "main.py", line 498, in _add_books
File "C:\Program Files\calibre\library.zip\calibre\ebooks\html.py", line 650, in gui_main
File "C:\Program Files\calibre\library.zip\calibre\ebooks\html.py", line 616, in create_oebzip
File "C:\Program Files\calibre\library.zip\calibre\ebooks\html.py", line 586, in create_dir
File "C:\Program Files\calibre\library.zip\calibre\ebooks\html.py", line 541, in merge_metadata
File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\__init__.pyo", line 196, in __init__
File "C:\Program Files\calibre\library.zip\calibre\ebooks\metadata\ opf.py", line 214, in __get__
File "C:\Program Files\calibre\library.zip\calibre\ebooks\metadata\ opf.py", line 297, in get_category
TypeError: expected string or buffer
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Old 09-09-2008, 08:08 PM   #203
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I installed beta 10 a short time ago and when I try to add an HTML file, I get the following error. I've looked through all the posts and don't see anyone else with the same issue. I'm using Vista Home Premium (32 bit).

expected string or buffer
Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 469, in add_books
File "main.py", line 498, in _add_books
File "C:\Program Files\calibre\library.zip\calibre\ebooks\html.py", line 650, in gui_main
File "C:\Program Files\calibre\library.zip\calibre\ebooks\html.py", line 616, in create_oebzip
File "C:\Program Files\calibre\library.zip\calibre\ebooks\html.py", line 586, in create_dir
File "C:\Program Files\calibre\library.zip\calibre\ebooks\html.py", line 541, in merge_metadata
File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\__init__.pyo", line 196, in __init__
File "C:\Program Files\calibre\library.zip\calibre\ebooks\metadata\ opf.py", line 214, in __get__
File "C:\Program Files\calibre\library.zip\calibre\ebooks\metadata\ opf.py", line 297, in get_category
TypeError: expected string or buffer
That will be fixed in the next release.
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Old 09-10-2008, 10:00 PM   #205
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Any progress on the OSX issues?
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Old 09-10-2008, 10:15 PM   #206
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Released b11 which should fix the OS X crash. Also has optimized sort code to make sorting a little faster (should only noticeable if you have a *lot* of books).

Now you can select the interface language from the config dialog.

(It should hit the server in about half an hour)
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Old 09-10-2008, 10:42 PM   #207
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So far, works great. No errors on startup and RTF files convert perfectly. Thanks
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Old 09-11-2008, 04:31 AM   #208
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Startup works fine for me now too :-)
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Old 09-11-2008, 04:35 AM   #209
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Unhandled exception with fetch news:

Mac OSX 10.5.4, calibre b11

Fetching news fails with the following (tried BBC and NASA, both gave same error):
unpack requires a string argument of length 6

Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre/gui2/__init__.pyo", line 130, in dispatch
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/main.py", line 785, in news_fetched
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/main.py", line 481, in _add_books
File "calibre/ebooks/metadata/meta.pyo", line 75, in get_metadata
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5/site-packages.zip/calibre/ebooks/lrf/meta.py", line 223, in get_metadata
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5/site-packages.zip/calibre/ebooks/lrf/meta.py", line 440, in __init__
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5/site-packages.zip/calibre/ebooks/lrf/meta.py", line 64, in __get__
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5/site-packages.zip/calibre/ebooks/lrf/meta.py", line 312, in restore_pos
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5/site-packages.zip/calibre/ebooks/lrf/meta.py", line 472, in unpack
File "struct.pyo", line 87, in unpack
error: unpack requires a string argument of length 6
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Old 09-11-2008, 11:58 AM   #210
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "debug.py", line 10, in <module>
File "calibre\__init__.pyo", line 12, in <module>
File "calibre\startup.pyo", line 19, in <module>
File "calibre\utils\config.pyo", line 21, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name plugins
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