Moon Reader Pro and Importing

[tule]

Originally Posted by stumped

in moon preferences find and tick the option to backup sync to cloud. it will need a one time auth for cloud access
so that on each device
then you will see a brief sync to cloud pip up as you exit a book
in cloud, you can see the files in apps/moonreader/cache.... 2 per book

i dont use that autosync app , know nothing about it, moon does not need it

Ok I understand
I keep my books in GDrive in 1 big file, do I choose the same file in Moon to sync with?

[stumped]

Originally Posted by tule

Ok I understand
I keep my books in GDrive in 1 big file, do I choose the same file in Moon to sync with?

all you choose in Moon is which cloud to sync to : dropbox or Google drive.
that is on main preferences screen with no book open- maybe within "backup"
you have no say in the details of how it does it.

I can tell you that in my case it uses this location
Dropbox\Apps\Books\.Moon+\Cache
and writes 2 files per book:
file name.epub.an
file name.epub.po
one is for notes and annotations, the other is for last page read

if the needed subfolders do not exist, then moon creates them

[tule]

Originally Posted by stumped

all you choose in Moon is which cloud to sync to : dropbox or Google drive.
that is on main preferences screen with no book open- maybe within "backup"
you have no say in the details of how it does it.

I can tell you that in my case it uses this location
Dropbox\Apps\Books\.Moon+\Cache
and writes 2 files per book:
file name.epub.an
file name.epub.po
one is for notes and annotations, the other is for last page read

if the needed subfolders do not exist, then moon creates them

and then you can open from G Drive from whatever device with the same annotations and from the same position?
it seems to me that each device holds his own memory and position, there is no syncing

[stumped]

It is much simpler than you think
Once you have, once per device, enabled sync to cloud in moon, then just use moon as normal.
Assuming you are online then each time you resume a book it checks and Says something like newer position available, use it? Y/N
And bookmarks etc are updated automatically....


....ok so my instructions were not perfect. I just opened moon and checked. Do this.

With a book open to to misc options. Scroll down. You should see tick boxes for
Sync reading position via Dropbox
Sync reading position via Google drive

Tick the one you want
Do that on each device
It applies to all books, not just to the one you have open
.
I know that bookmarks get synced, I don't use notes but I assume they get synced also

( The backup and restore options on the main preferences, with no book open, are for the apps configuration.
I use that to copy my preferences easily to a new device.)

Experiment a little, ask again of stuck.
Unfortunately there is no user manual.

[tule]

Originally Posted by stumped

It is much simpler than you think
Once you have, once per device, enabled sync to cloud in moon, then just use moon as normal.
Assuming you are online then each time you resume a book it checks and Says something like newer position available, use it? Y/N
And bookmarks etc are updated automatically....


....ok so my instructions were not perfect. I just opened moon and checked. Do this.

With a book open to to misc options. Scroll down. You should see tick boxes for
Sync reading position via Dropbox
Sync reading position via Google drive

Tick the one you want
Do that on each device
It applies to all books, not just to the one you have open
.
I know that bookmarks get synced, I don't use notes but I assume they get synced also

( The backup and restore options on the main preferences, with no book open, are for the apps configuration.
I use that to copy my preferences easily to a new device.)

Experiment a little, ask again of stuck.
Unfortunately there is no user manual.

what do yo mean by use moon as normal?
maybe your instructions are good but I am nog perfect

[stumped]

ps. if you can see that cache subfolder in cloud then you have set it up correctly, if you can't then you haven't
...Apps\Books\.Moon+\Cache

a google search for
Sync reading position via Dropbox

bring up several "how to" instructions links if you can't follow mine

[tule]

Originally Posted by stumped

ps. if you can see that cache subfolder in cloud then you have set it up correctly, if you can't then you haven't
...Apps\Books\.Moon+\Cache

a google search for
Sync reading position via Dropbox

bring up several "how to" instructions links if you can't follow mine

I have on the 2 devices that cache folder but they don't sync

[stumped]

i don't know what else to suggest
carefully read other peoples instructions via the google search links & try to spot what you have missed ?
if you can see the .an and .po files in cloud for a given book, then the sync data has been written to cloud. the timestamp for those file is another thing you can check

check that you have set the moon preference the same on every device, and that you are not reading offline, and that you have authorised moon to access the same cloud account ON EACH DEVICE

again, my post #17 was wrong. the setting is not on the main preferences screen ( that is for backing up the apps config), you want the setting on misc options, accessed while you have a book open

[tule]

Originally Posted by stumped

i don't know what else to suggest
carefully read other peoples instructions via the google search links & try to spot what you have missed ?
if you can see the .an and .po files in cloud for a given book, then the sync data has been written to cloud. the timestamp for those file is another thing you can check

check that you have set the moon preference the same on every device, and that you are not reading offline, and that you have authorised moon to access the same cloud account ON EACH DEVICE

again, my post #17 was wrong. the setting is not on the main preferences screen ( that is for backing up the apps config), you want the setting on misc options, accessed while you have a book open

Ok I keep trying
I will let you know if I succeed and what I did to do so
Thanks very much for your support!!

[tule]

Originally Posted by tule

Ok I keep trying
I will let you know if I succeed and what I did to do so
Thanks very much for your support!!

and then magic happened

I succeeded to syn: I removed the existing app files and ajusted one of the 2 file folders in the exactly same name and it works

altough sometimes it seems to miss the sync (due to bad wifi?)

anyway, stumped thanks again for the big support you're an ace!

[stumped]

Yes, the book files names have to exactly match. If yo use 2 methods and 2 devices it is possible to get a mismatch. Because some methods keep the file name to 32 characters. That is how they are stored in calibre library. But trransfer with calibre companion and it recreates a longer file name from a send to template

[ElfN]

I am exporting from Calibre to Moon+ Pro and sometimes the books don't show up for import. They're in the folder but they don't get imported (auto import is set). Strangely enough I can go to my files, find the book and it opens in Moon+.

All the books are on my SD drive in Books, both the ones that imported and the ones that didn't.

Can anyone tell me why some books will import and others won't?