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Old 05-09-2012, 04:08 PM   #1
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Removing files of zero size in Calibre

Hi everyone,
I've just found this site, hopefully it can help with the problem I'm having.

I was messing around with my calibre and managed to import a number of .mobi files that are zero bytes in size. They now appear in my calibre database. Does anyone have a good way of removing them from the command line.

I've tried

calibredb list -s size:=0 --with-library /data2/media/calibre/ | calibredb remove

The first command lists the zero size books correctly but the second part gives out saying that I need to specify the books to be removed. Has anyone come across this before.

BTW I'm using version (calibre 0.8.35)

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Old 05-18-2012, 10:27 AM   #2
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Well thanks for all the viewings....

I've decided to simply delete the dB, remove the files on the OS and the recreate the calibre dB.
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Zynster; when I read the help for calibredb remove it tells me it expects another argument; a comma separated list of IDs of books to remove; NOT a list on stdin of books to process, so I would not have expected that to work at all.

You could also just have dropped the zero byte files at the OS level and then performed a library check function to identify the missing material in calibre and then had calibre peform a cleanup.

Also, in the calibre gui, did you try a search for
size:=0 format:mobi
then select all the displayed records, right click them and do either a remove books | remove selected books OR a remove books | remove remove files of a specified format and select mobi?
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Old 05-19-2012, 08:43 PM   #4
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xargs

I use the windows version of calibre, but to pass parameters via pipe in unix, I would use xargs:

calibredb list -s size:=0 --with-library /data2/media/calibre/ | xargs calibredb remove
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Old 05-21-2012, 07:40 AM   #5
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Thanks for the responses. I'm running it without a GUI and I was stuck for a while.

I did read the documentation about removing the books but it didn't click that I could just remove the files and do a cleanup of the library.

Well you live and learn.

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