Hangs when getting list of books on device

Insomnic · 12-18-2009, 11:00 PM

Hello, I've had a good experience using Calibre but recently I tried to transfer some new books over and it hangs at the "Get list of books on device" job. I can't cancel it without ejecting the device (which requires a Calibre shutdown).

It seems like it is hanging on trying to read a particular book because it scans through my azw books but then just ... hangs. The progress bar continues to move until it fills the bar but the "remaining time" just continues to rise. Is there any way I can find out what book it is hanging on without going one by one? I have a couple hundred books on here.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Insomnic · 12-18-2009, 11:09 PM

Okay. I figured it out. It was some very large PDF files. Something about their nature hangs up Calibre. They are images converted to PDF using Irfanview (manga scanlations). I'll try something other than Irfanview to convert and see if the problem remains.

user_none · 12-18-2009, 11:37 PM

You have two options to speed up reading the files on the device. Disable the PDF metadata reader plugin. Or also in plugins, go to the plugin for your device and uncheck read metadata.

Insomnic · 12-19-2009, 01:59 PM

It seems to be the PDFs I specifically created from those images via Irfanview. Other PDFs seem to be just fine. I'll convert a bit differently I guess and hopefully that will work it out. Better yet - hopefully the picture viewer bug will be resolved soon and I won't have to worry about it.

theducks · 10-06-2016, 11:25 AM

the previous post was from 2009.

Necro posting is frowned upon because so much changes in a short time, so as to render responses a wasted effort.
Please look at the date of the post (and observe the Warning that should have appeared on a thread this old)

Calibre has even a faster cycle, so 6 months is considered 'OLD' (but you won't get the board level warning)

BTW Norton has changed a lot since 2009.

12-18-2009, 11:00 PM	#1
Insomnic Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: Kindle 2	Hangs when getting list of books on device Hello, I've had a good experience using Calibre but recently I tried to transfer some new books over and it hangs at the "Get list of books on device" job. I can't cancel it without ejecting the device (which requires a Calibre shutdown). It seems like it is hanging on trying to read a particular book because it scans through my azw books but then just ... hangs. The progress bar continues to move until it fills the bar but the "remaining time" just continues to rise. Is there any way I can find out what book it is hanging on without going one by one? I have a couple hundred books on here. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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12-18-2009, 11:09 PM	#2
Insomnic Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: Kindle 2	Okay. I figured it out. It was some very large PDF files. Something about their nature hangs up Calibre. They are images converted to PDF using Irfanview (manga scanlations). I'll try something other than Irfanview to convert and see if the problem remains.

12-18-2009, 11:37 PM	#3
user_none Sigil & calibre developer Posts: 2,488 Karma: 1063785 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Florida, USA Device: Nook STR	You have two options to speed up reading the files on the device. Disable the PDF metadata reader plugin. Or also in plugins, go to the plugin for your device and uncheck read metadata.

12-19-2009, 01:59 PM	#4
Insomnic Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: Kindle 2	It seems to be the PDFs I specifically created from those images via Irfanview. Other PDFs seem to be just fine. I'll convert a bit differently I guess and hopefully that will work it out. Better yet - hopefully the picture viewer bug will be resolved soon and I won't have to worry about it.

10-06-2016, 11:25 AM	#5
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,786 Karma: 54830978 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	the previous post was from 2009. Necro posting is frowned upon because so much changes in a short time, so as to render responses a wasted effort. Please look at the date of the post (and observe the Warning that should have appeared on a thread this old) Calibre has even a faster cycle, so 6 months is considered 'OLD' (but you won't get the board level warning) BTW Norton has changed a lot since 2009.

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