Calibre + Gladinet + Skydrive

[pedgarcia]

Hi,

I know about the solution with Dropbox, but I'm trying to get Calibre working with Gladinet and Skydrive.

Basically, Gladinet creates a drive letter in your system, but instead of synchronizing files, it acts as a actual drive, saving the file direct to the destination.

In principle, it seemed straightforward. I've just set the Z:\Windows Live SkyDrive\calibre as Location for ebooks.

The problem is the way Gladinet does its stuff. When you copy/add a file to that directory, it starts uploading the file (FTP-style) which can take a while.

As far I could see, Calibre timeouts for open/modifying files are ok for local files, but not for remote files with that behavior. Because of that, if I try, for example, I've got an error like that:

ERROR: ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>WindowsError</b>:[Error 145] The directory is not empty: u'Z:\\Windows Live SkyDrive\\calibre\\Chris\\Book.pdf'

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\dialogs\metadata_single.py", line 641, in accept
File "site-packages\calibre\library\database2.py", line 758, in set_title
File "site-packages\calibre\library\database2.py", line 322, in set_path
File "site-packages\calibre\library\database2.py", line 270, in rmtree
File "site-packages\calibre\library\database2.py", line 49, in delete_tree
File "shutil.py", line 225, in rmtree
File "shutil.py", line 223, in rmtree
WindowsError: [Error 145] The directory is not empty: u'Z:\\Windows Live SkyDrive\\calibre\\Chris\\Book.PDF'

In that case, I've tried to edit a PDF metadata.

Is there a way to tell Calibre to copy the file to a temp folder before changing it and then send it back to the final destination afterwards? Or another way to live with that scenario?

Thanks!

[kovidgoyal]

I'm afraid not. There are too many places in the code that assume the filesystem being written to is a local one, for things like timeouts and file locking.

[pedgarcia]

I could imagine that. Thanks anyway.

I'll go to Dropbox solution, instead.

Regards