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Old 10-31-2024, 03:55 PM   #1
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Problem automatically adding books
Is there a way to add to the ignore list for automatically adding to Calibre from a designated folder.
I have add all file types checked because I use Calibre to manage audiobooks too, so I put MP3, MP4, etc. files into my automatically add to Calibre folder, which works great.
When I download books/audiobooks I download them straight to my autoadd folder, since I don't want to handle the files more than necessary.
I am having a problem with files that take a long time to download. The browser adds a .part extension to the file that is downloading, which Calibre then picks up and loads into my library. I would like to prevent Calibre from picking up just this file type, but it's not in the list of file types to exclude.

I can't use a download manager for a lot of download sites, since they error out. I'm stuck using a browser, which appends .part to the download which Calibre then picks up.

Could you please show me where I can add to that ignore list please.
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Old 10-31-2024, 04:07 PM   #2
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Yeah, the solution here is not to download directly into the autoadd folder.
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Could you please show me where I can add to that ignore list please.
Try this:

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Try this:

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Autoadd has its own ignore settings.
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Autoadd has its own ignore settings.
Except you are limited to the listed selections; you can't specify additional file types.
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Yeah.
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Hopefully someone will be able to implement an enhancement to maintain the exclusion list:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/2086478
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Hopefully someone will be able to implement an enhancement to maintain the exclusion list:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/2086478
I'm confused. The help displatyed on the page Preferences | Adding Books | Adding Actions | Rules to filter added files clearly states that these rules apply both to adding books from folders / archives AND autoadding.
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I'm confused. The help displatyed on the page Preferences | Adding Books | Adding Actions | Rules to filter added files clearly states that these rules apply both to adding books from folders / archives AND autoadding.
Well that's confusing.
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Well that's confusing.
I meant the solution already exists, so why is a bug report needed??
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I think the issue is the OP is running Autoadd when a download is in progress to the Autoadd folder. During the download, the file is in two parts. A dummy file with the filename and the in-progress download with .part appended to the file name. i.e. ebook.mobi and ebook.mobi.part. calibre should not be adding the .part file since it is not a supported ebook type unless someone has ticked the Automatically add files of all types (not just ebooks) under the Autoadding options but the original filename will be seen as addable and since Autoadd deletes the file after adding, can we say ooops?

BetterRed's suggestion to add the .part extension to the exclude rules is not likely to help in this case.

Sorry but to me, this is a PEBKAC error.
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