03-01-2013, 03:39 AM | #1 |
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Very slow connection to nexus4 on linux
I know Linux does not play well with the MTP method that new nexus devices use.
I do have it working on my Linux Mint 13 laptop though. issues: When calibre detects my device and reads the books off it. it takes about 8 minutes. from my debug log I get the following Code:
MTP: Filesystem metadata loaded in 474.418 seconds (11989 objects) Is this behavior correct? does calibre scan everything? for every format it understands? if so why is it taking so long? When I open up the nexus4 folder it seems to load and move things as fast an anything else. once I have unmounted my phone and I recconect it later. Calibre does not see it. I have to resart the udev service and then calibre reads my phone again. I suspect the linux implementation of MTP is the cause of all this but I'm posting this in hopes someone has an answer and to help make calibre better |
03-01-2013, 03:44 AM | #2 |
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Uninstall your distro version of calibre and install the official calibre linux binary from http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux
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03-01-2013, 08:43 AM | #3 |
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I don't use the Ubuntu version, I like updating too much :-)
As a matter of fact while I was Trouble shooting you released the new update Please let me know if any logs would help |
03-01-2013, 10:14 AM | #4 |
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calibre scans only some top level folders, you can configure which ones by right clicking on the device icon in calibre and choosing configure this device.
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03-03-2013, 03:02 PM | #5 |
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Thanks that helped, I'm having calibre only scan 3 folders and that has cut the time down to 2 minutes. I'm hoping that in the near future Linux will have better support for mtp in the kernel
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