12-04-2011, 05:15 PM | #1 |
Junior Member
Posts: 4
Karma: 10
Join Date: Dec 2010
Device: Sony PR-650
|
Editing "date" on a "News" tagged ebook makes it vanish...
I stumbled on an oddity, and figured I'd post it, see if anybody can reproduce, and if it's a bug.
If you watch the video, make sure you hit the "CC" button, you'll see texts with steps to reproduce. You can reproduce doing the following: 1. Create a text file/or just import any ebook 2. Import file into Calibre 3. Edit the metadata of the ebook, and add a "News" tag 4. Change the "Date" field to a different date other than the imported date (I usually changed the month back a few). 5. Save the changes, and close Calibre 6. Reopen Calibre, wait until the heart/donate icon stops beating, and watch your ebook vanish. Calibre has no issues editing the date on ebooks that don't have a "News" tag. Weird eh? I discovered this after importing versions of the Linux Journal magazine ePub files. I found that if you tagged them with "News" they'd be sent to my Sony PRS-650 as a publication, but they had the wrong date on them. On changing the date, they vanished from Calibre. I tested this on a "clean" configuration by doing the following: - Renamed %USERPROFILE%\Calibre Library - Renamed %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Calibre System Information: - Windows 7 Ultimate x64 - Calibre 0.8.29 (but I've seen this issue going back several versions) |
12-04-2011, 06:17 PM | #2 |
Wizard
Posts: 4,553
Karma: 950151
Join Date: Nov 2008
Device: Sony PRS-950, iphone/ipad (Marvin/iBooks/QuickReader)
|
I suspect it is some sort of automated 'tidy' function to stop old news clagging up your calibre library?
|
Advert | |
|
12-04-2011, 07:25 PM | #3 | |
Junior Member
Posts: 4
Karma: 10
Join Date: Dec 2010
Device: Sony PR-650
|
Quote:
The only way I can see to actually disable it is if a recipe was setup, and you can disable the cleanup from the recipe. I guess I can dig into that a bit, though both of the ones mostly impacted by this issue are behind login walls, and provide either PDF or ePub downloads (along with random URLs). Thanks for the hint, I didn't even think the news maintenance stuff would kick in when I don't have it set to download any news. |
|
12-04-2011, 09:35 PM | #4 |
creator of calibre
Posts: 44,381
Karma: 23766374
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Mumbai, India
Device: Various
|
Simply set the delete news older than setting to zero, then news will not be deleted, as the tooltip for that control will tell you.
|
12-04-2011, 10:12 PM | #5 |
Junior Member
Posts: 4
Karma: 10
Join Date: Dec 2010
Device: Sony PR-650
|
So it does. Thanks to both of you for the help. I wouldn't have thought the maintenance ran even with no news downloads setup, and I wouldn't have noticed the tool tip if you hadn't mentioned it.
|
Advert | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Custom column: "Updated date", when adding new "versions" of the same file? | enriquep | Library Management | 16 | 11-03-2011 10:46 AM |
Including "Date" in the title of a news download | mkha98 | Recipes | 1 | 08-23-2011 08:26 AM |
how do i fetch news with "en" tagged as language - kindle3 | schuster | Recipes | 0 | 05-09-2011 06:51 AM |
Call "print newspapers" as "snailpapers" because they arrive with news is 12 hrs old | taglines | Lounge | 4 | 02-05-2010 10:01 AM |