[GUI Plugin] Drop Search Results

[DaltonST]

Version 1.0.10 - 2019-12-20 Technical changes after Python 3.8 testing with Calibre 4.99.2

[ownedbycats]

I've been having seemingly random crashes when dragging results onto the DSR window from Agent Ransack. I use AR to search my library folder for *.epub and then the text string I was looking for.

I have a log from debug mode (tmpthomga.txt) (it crashed the first time in the session), though it doesn't really show anything.

It's not an issue with specific files. None of the books I tried to drag in had Unicode/special characters in their filenames. The library folder has full read/write permissions and I set Windows Defender to exempt the entire folder. The issue persists over several Calibre restarts and a Windows restart.

Any other suggestions on what might be causing this?

[DaltonST]

I've never, ever seen any crashes. Try giving yourself Administrator security. See the OP.

BR is an original user of DSR, and for-sure she would have said something if she had problems.

I baked DSR into CalibreSpy, which BR also has used since day 1 with no crashes.

Sounds like you have a software environment issue.


DaltonST

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by DaltonST

I've never, ever seen any crashes. Try giving yourself Administrator security. See the OP.

BR is an original user of DSR, and for-sure she would have said something if she had problems.

DSR (my favourite PI) works for me, I mainly use it with Windows Search or xplorer² Find.

Originally Posted by DaltonST

I baked DSR into CalibreSpy, which BR also has used since day 1 with no crashes.

I don't think I knew that - must give it a try.

Now, you'll probably tell me I asked for it

Take care

BR - who's a he

[eater]

The "drop" interface is cool but I'd love a way to use this plugin on my command line, piping a list of Recoll results and getting the output in the Calibre GUI. Is that possible?

[DaltonST]

Drop Search Results is designed for Drag and Drop using file path results of GUI-based search applications like Agent Ransack, Windows Search, X1, etc. One could write a tiny GUI created from a command line that loads supplied file path parameters that can then be dragged and dropped.

[DaltonST]

Originally Posted by eater

The "drop" interface is cool but I'd love a way to use this plugin on my command line, piping a list of Recoll results and getting the output in the Calibre GUI. Is that possible?

However, since you are using a Linux command-line app and not a GUI search app with drag-and-drop capability, you might try this approach:

[1] Use the Job Spy plugin's tool "Search for book title list currently in the system clipboard". Each title must be delimited with a "\n", as if you had a text file with a single title on each line that you had copied to the clipboard.

[2] Write a Python script with a command line parameter that adds a long string of book titles to the system clipboard. For ideas how to do so, see: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...t-to-clipboard

[3] Pipe a list of Recoll results to your new Python script.

[4] In Calibre, create a custom Keyboard Shortcut to the Job Spy tool in [1], above, to make it trivial to execute.




DaltonST

[DaltonST]

Version 1.0.11 - 2020-12-21 Miscellany.


DaltonST

[Payment_Creamer]

Does it matter whether I use a mapped drive or UNC path in the search results being dragged and dropped in?

I'm trying to drag and drop from Search Everything (void tools) onto DSR modal window but nothing happens. Both applications running under my user context (non-admin). Calibre library resides on a NAS, calibre 5.27 running on Windows 10. Library opened using UNC.

[ownedbycats]

You shouldn't be running your library on an NAS!

[Payment_Creamer]

Originally Posted by Payment_Creamer

Does it matter whether I use a mapped drive or UNC path in the search results being dragged and dropped in?

I'm trying to drag and drop from Search Everything (void tools) onto DSR modal window but nothing happens. Both applications running under my user context (non-admin). Calibre library resides on a NAS, calibre 5.27 running on Windows 10. Library opened using UNC.

So I figured out that as long as you match the path of the library it will work. tested by opening a library via UNC and another using mapped drive letter. DSR worked fine when the filepaths used the matching location type. I know it's not supported, but that's what I found worked for me.

[Payment_Creamer]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

You shouldn't be running your library on an NAS!

Noted! I've been running calibre since 2017 so I'm aware of the risks. I compensate with hourly snapshots of my 120 GB library on its dedicated SSD calibre volume on the NAS.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Payment_Creamer

Noted! I've been running calibre since 2017 so I'm aware of the risks. I compensate with hourly snapshots of my 120 GB library on its dedicated SSD calibre volume on the NAS.

FYI - the plugin author DaltonST hasn't logged in since February 2021.

BR

[DaltonST]

Test Version for Qt6 compatibility. Calibre minimum version 5.99.3 required.


DaltonST

[DaltonST]

Version 1.0.13 - 2022-04-13 Qt6 Compatibility; Minimum Calibre Version now 6.0.0 (5.99.8+)