01-27-2018, 12:50 PM | #1 | |
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Error communicating with device (kindle paperwhite)
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Having a weird error. Hooked up the kindle this morning, and it'll get to about 92-93% and then hits me with an error communicating with device. Quote:
Any idea what's going on? Only recent change is the upgrade to the 3.15 version. I rarely connect my kindle to the pc, so I can't say this is because of that or another version. Just odd. I've rebooted the pc a few times, and I still get the error each time. Any helps appreciated! Chris |
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01-27-2018, 12:52 PM | #2 |
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There are probably too many files/folders in M:\ delete a few and you should be fine, or reformat it using fat32
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01-27-2018, 12:54 PM | #3 |
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Yea I've got this thing pretty packed. Didn't think that'd ever cause an issue, but you learn something new every day Thanks!! Chris |
01-27-2018, 01:14 PM | #4 | |
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Make a 1 letter folder name in root (keeps total path names short), before placing the books folder |
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03-18-2018, 05:05 PM | #5 |
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Dear All,
i have the same problems as described in comment 1). Books are on my Kindle, but Calibre doesn't show, that they are on the device. But i do not understand, what has been described in comment 4). ?=> what to do here eaxactly... Is it helpfull, does this solve the problem? would be fine to get your inputs! (==> for explanation: the error occured, when i added nearly 500 additional books to the kindle) |
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03-22-2018, 06:36 PM | #6 |
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The thing is, if you use the default of allowing the eBooks to be put in different subdirectories with Calibre, you will end up with many empty subdirectories. When you delete the eBook, the subdirectory remains. So you have to then manually find the empty subdirectories and delete them. I just don't allow subdirectores. It just works much much better.
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03-22-2018, 07:36 PM | #7 | |
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03-23-2018, 03:12 AM | #8 | |
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And if you are going to hit a file limit in a directory because of the subdirectories, you will probably hit it sooner without them. And FAT16 is about the only commonly used files system where this would have been an issue. |
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