Prevent Kobo from importing dotfiles/folders

[baskerville]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@baskerville: Yep, I should have made that clearer. Would your example work, given the "sandwich", or would that need some trickery like @frostschutz did?

I don't know, I didn't get @frostschutz trickery.

EDIT: I understand @frostschutz hack now: the sandwiched regexp matches any path with a hidden directory/file. I prefer not to play with fire here and just cooperate with the sandwich. I've tested my regexp and it seems to work fine.

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

EDIT: If I put my brain in "regexp mode", I think it looks fine for that purpose, but I haven't tested it . (i.e., accepts zero or more "classic" directories in front of an hidden one).

Yes.

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

EDIT²: The first group might fail to match for a single-character folder name, though, right?

Oops, fixed in the original post.

[Nemo1984]

I would like to exclude vlasovsoft folder as well. How would I do this with the conf file?

Thanks

[NiLuJe]

Define exclude. And explain what you're currently doing and what your issue is, exactly.

[Nemo1984]

I currently have PBChess installed. It comes with its own screensavers. Also, the manga reader in pbchess downloads manga as images.

Because of that, the screensavers and manga's individual pages show up along with my regulars books.

The folder vlasovsoft is where all these images are stored. I would like to exclude this folder from my library using the kobo.conf file.

Thanks!

[NiLuJe]

And where is that folder, and what is it named, exactly? And what are you currently using as the setting, if any?

[Nemo1984]

The folder is ".kobo/vlasovsoft". Under that, there are various folders that needs to be excluded. EG: screensaver, manga. Current settings are:
\\\.(?!kobo|adobe|vlasovsoft).*?

[NiLuJe]

That definitely won't work .

You'll either want to get rid of the kobo exclusion (which ends up being an *inclusion*, in practice), with the potential side-effects that may entail (if any): ExcludeSyncFolders=\\.(?!adobe).*?


Or put on a regexp thinking cap and devise one that matches a specific subfolder inside .kobo while still allowing .kobo itself, and still matching other top-level (or not, if you want to get fancy) hidden folders. That option is somewhat above my pay grade.


Sidebar: Do note that putting stuff inside the .kobo folder is a terrible idea: it'll get wiped without a second thought by a signout, something which can be forced upon you in case of database corruption.

[frostschutz]

(not tested)

\\.(?!kobo(?!/vlasovsoft)|adobe).*?

[Nemo1984]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

That definitely won't work .

You'll either want to get rid of the kobo exclusion (which ends up being an *inclusion*, in practice), with the potential side-effects that may entail (if any): ExcludeSyncFolders=\\.(?!adobe).*?


Or put on a regexp thinking cap and devise one that matches a specific subfolder inside .kobo while still allowing .kobo itself, and still matching other top-level (or not, if you want to get fancy) hidden folders. That option is somewhat above my pay grade.


Sidebar: Do note that putting stuff inside the .kobo folder is a terrible idea: it'll get wiped without a second thought by a signout, something which can be forced upon you in case of database corruption.

That worked great, thanks! As for the .kobo folder, I am aware that it might get wiped. Everything important is also in .backup on root.

[NiLuJe]

Before anyone asks, we're still golden on 4.18 . And it appears to have fixed a spurious import screen issue we'd been experiencing on 4.17.

(And the default patterns have been fixed, as far as the . != \. thing goes ).

[sirzur]

I use Cool reader to read my books on Kobo Glo which are stored in a /books directory in the microsd card. There are about 2000 books in this directory, mainly stored in subdirectories.

What setting should I have in the "ExcludeSyncFolders" to prevent nickel from scanning the directories every time I do a reset? Nickel takes an excruciating long time "importing content" when I reset the reader and since I don't use that as my reader, it does not need to be accessed by nickel

Thanks

[geek1011]

Originally Posted by sirzur

I use Cool reader to read my books on Kobo Glo which are stored in a /books directory in the microsd card. There are about 2000 books in this directory, mainly stored in subdirectories.

What setting should I have in the "ExcludeSyncFolders" to prevent nickel from scanning the directories every time I do a reset? Nickel takes an excruciating long time "importing content" when I reset the reader and since I don't use that as my reader, it does not need to be accessed by nickel

If you don't want to import when you reset, you won't be able to do this with a config option, as that will be cleared when you sign out or reset. Here is a build of my mod (and the source) which will persist unless you do a full reset (which also wipes your books) or you manually remove it over telnet or ssh. You'll need to copy KoboRoot.tgz into the .kobo dir.

Tell me if this works for you (it shouldn't attempt to import anything new from any dir named books anymore). Note that this will probably remove the book from nickel (but not the sd card), so you may want to make a copy of the contents of KOBOeReader first.

[Nemo1984]

Originally Posted by geek1011

If you don't want to import when you reset, you won't be able to do this with a config option, as that will be cleared when you sign out or reset. Here is a build of my mod (and the source) which will persist unless you do a full reset (which also wipes your books) or you manually remove it over telnet or ssh. You'll need to copy KoboRoot.tgz into the .kobo dir.

Tell me if this works for you (it shouldn't attempt to import anything new from any dir named books anymore). Note that this will probably remove the book from nickel (but not the sd card), so you may want to make a copy of the contents of KOBOeReader first.

Is this any different than the patch in the first post?

[geek1011]

Originally Posted by Nemo1984

Is this any different than the patch in the first post?

Yes, it's a slightly newer build (with logging, and some internal cleanup by NiLuJe), plus it hides any dir named "books" as well as dotfiles/dirs based on sirzur's request.

[Nemo1984]

Originally Posted by geek1011

Yes, it's a slightly newer build (with logging, and some internal cleanup by NiLuJe), plus it hides any dir named "books" as well as dotfiles/dirs based on sirzur's request.

Ok thanks. I will stear clear of that one, I need my books folder scanned.