Calibre is listing books on my device that aren't there

Terbium · 04-13-2014, 06:29 PM

Hi there,

I've been using calibre to put books on my paperwhite 2nd gen and it's been wonderful. However, I have come across one thing that's bugging me. I've deleted a number of books from my kindle (either using the kindle itself or by deleting them manually from the documents folder on the kindle) but when I click view books on device in calibre some of them still show as there. It says they're in the main documents folder which I've navigated to and checked that they're not (not even as hidden files). The files definitely don't seem to be on the kindle and clicking on these entries in calibre gives an error to support this. Anyway, I right click them in calibre and select remove from device and that seems to work. I'd just be interested to know what calibre is referencing and why it thinks the files are there when they're not.

theducks · 04-13-2014, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Terbium

Hi there,

I've been using calibre to put books on my paperwhite 2nd gen and it's been wonderful. However, I have come across one thing that's bugging me. I've deleted a number of books from my kindle (either using the kindle itself or by deleting them manually from the documents folder on the kindle) but when I click view books on device in calibre some of them still show as there. It says they're in the main documents folder which I've navigated to and checked that they're not (not even as hidden files). The files definitely don't seem to be on the kindle and clicking on these entries in calibre gives an error to support this. Anyway, I right click them in calibre and select remove from device and that seems to work. I'd just be interested to know what calibre is referencing and why it thinks the files are there when they're not.

Calibre makes an inventory and leaves it on your device (metadata.calibre). When you delete ON the device, the inventory becomes out of date, but calibre needs to scan to find that. Your device driver configuration controls when/where the scan gets done. Check the device configuration with the device connected

HarryT · 04-14-2014, 04:37 AM

Further to what theducks said, if you're using Calibre to maintain books on your PW, I'd recommend that you get into the habit of only deleting books from Calibre. You can either do so from the "Device" view in Calibre or (easier, IMHO), right click on a book in the library and select "Remove Matching Books from Device".

04-13-2014, 06:29 PM	#1
Terbium Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2014 Device: Kindle Paperwhite 2nd gen	Calibre is listing books on my device that aren't there Hi there, I've been using calibre to put books on my paperwhite 2nd gen and it's been wonderful. However, I have come across one thing that's bugging me. I've deleted a number of books from my kindle (either using the kindle itself or by deleting them manually from the documents folder on the kindle) but when I click view books on device in calibre some of them still show as there. It says they're in the main documents folder which I've navigated to and checked that they're not (not even as hidden files). The files definitely don't seem to be on the kindle and clicking on these entries in calibre gives an error to support this. Anyway, I right click them in calibre and select remove from device and that seems to work. I'd just be interested to know what calibre is referencing and why it thinks the files are there when they're not.

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04-14-2014, 04:37 AM	#3
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383099 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Further to what theducks said, if you're using Calibre to maintain books on your PW, I'd recommend that you get into the habit of only deleting books from Calibre. You can either do so from the "Device" view in Calibre or (easier, IMHO), right click on a book in the library and select "Remove Matching Books from Device".

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