Hi everyone!
First off, apologies if this has been addressed before. I did several searches in the forum and haven't found my specific situation and desperately need some help:
I just got Calibre two days ago after adding my epubs from old hard drives off another three computers. There's a TON of books, and I've been trying to add them to my library chunk or two at a time. I don't have much memory with which to start, to be fair, but I had about 19GB or so. Should be plenty for starters. So I started using the "Add Books" feature to organize my files. I hit the button and Calibre tells me it's going to take a while (read as the progress bar was moving very slowly and took almost 30 mins to get to 3%), so I went to bed, leaving my computer to finish importing books.
When I woke up, I got a memory error message and found that my hard drive has no memory left at all! Calibre has used up 19GB of memory importing books! Is it duplicating them somewhere? Is it expanding metadata somewhere that's doubling or tripling the size of my files? What can I do to revert this nightmare? I thought Calibre was just going to make note of where my books were located on my computer and wouldn't be using any memory to add them to my library. I have about 2.5TB of books that I wanted to add, but if I can't do it in Calibre without doubling my memory use, there's no point in using it...
Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance! Cheers!
Will :blink:
First off, apologies if this has been addressed before. I did several searches in the forum and haven't found my specific situation and desperately need some help:
I just got Calibre two days ago after adding my epubs from old hard drives off another three computers. There's a TON of books, and I've been trying to add them to my library chunk or two at a time. I don't have much memory with which to start, to be fair, but I had about 19GB or so. Should be plenty for starters. So I started using the "Add Books" feature to organize my files. I hit the button and Calibre tells me it's going to take a while (read as the progress bar was moving very slowly and took almost 30 mins to get to 3%), so I went to bed, leaving my computer to finish importing books.
When I woke up, I got a memory error message and found that my hard drive has no memory left at all! Calibre has used up 19GB of memory importing books! Is it duplicating them somewhere? Is it expanding metadata somewhere that's doubling or tripling the size of my files? What can I do to revert this nightmare? I thought Calibre was just going to make note of where my books were located on my computer and wouldn't be using any memory to add them to my library. I have about 2.5TB of books that I wanted to add, but if I can't do it in Calibre without doubling my memory use, there's no point in using it...
Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance! Cheers!
Will :blink: