[Q] Aldiko premium can't find PDF on sdcard - Acer Iconia A500

I downloaded a zipped archive with pdf:s. Unzipped them with ES file-manager. I can read them with Adobe Reader but not with Aldiko Premium. When I open the folder with the files Aldiko tells me "No EPUB or PDF file found". What am I missing?

I suspect the issue is that current Honeycomb devices use the "SDCard" mount name for the internal flash storage.
Please try the following, which just worked worked for me:
From the Aldiko "SD Card" screen, hit the "up a level" arrow in the top right corner of the screen.
From there you should see an option for "external_sd", which is the mount point for the actual microSD card. Check that and you should get "Import to Aldiko (1)" on the import button.

The problem isn't that Aldiko looks in the wrong dir. It is that when I open the folder with the files it can't see them. I can see them with ES filemanager and Adobe reader can find them and open them but Aldiko can't. I moved the files to external sd and tried to import them without success.

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Aldiko not recognising my books on Cyanogen 4.2.15.1

I have tried wiping and re-flashing the DRC83 base and the CM rom, also tried the fix_permissions script, also tried uninstalling and re-installing the Aldiko app, nothing will let me see the existing books on the SD card, and i dont want to download them again.
anyone know how to get them back?
Try this:
hook up the phone to your computer, and mount the sd card.
find the folder called eBooks.
In there you'll see subfolders for your authors, and in there you'll see subfolders again for each of the books.
Grab the .epub files and place it in your import folder (eBooks/import/)
Then in Aldiko, import the books again. They'll all be there.
You can do this through Astro, etc, but if you have a bunch of books, it's easier to do it in Windows Explorer on your computer.
thanks you just made my day god bless you

[Q] Manual Nooter and B&N Library

I finally got the Manual Nooter 4.5.6 going, and all the apps and everything works great, love it!
My only reason for rooting however, I cannot seem to find an answer to.
I want to move files that I download from the web, into the /my files/books section and have them show up in the library.
I am able to sideload through calibre, no problem, and they show up.
However if I download through Aldiko and move the files over, it won't show up. I don't see what the difference is.
Any help would be great!
Are you sure that you are placing the files in the correct place after downloading them with Aldiko? They have to be in the main memory to see in the library not the SD card. I will wager that Aldiko is downloading them to the SD card which also has a /My Files/Books folder
Yes. I think so. The path to the books is:
/media/my files/books Aldiko does put them on the SD card and Im moving the folder.
Does the my files folder need to be up a level? Thats where Calibre puts them by default. And they are seen fine.
The library will read from /My Files/Books on either internal memory (/media) or the sdcard (/sdcard).
How are you moving stuff? If I put anything in either of those two, the library sees them. Have you done a refresh in the library?
I'm using Astro file manager to move them from the SD card to the internal storage.
I then do refresh the library, and nothing.
I can put a folder, or just an epub, and still nothing. I'm not getting something...if Calibre can do it and the library can see it, the theoretically I "should" be able to just drop one in there.

[Q] Stupid question on SD Cards

Just got my Iconnia last week and it's stunning.
However if I drag .apk's onto my 32Gb SD Card I can't seem to find them using Linda File manager.
Is there a particular programme I need to use to access it?
When I look into Storage it only seems to show my internal memory, howevermy Gallery DOES find my camera pics on the card so what am I doing wrong?
Dragging using what ?? on desktop PC ?? ( best is to copy & paste )
for when on the iconia... I downloaded "Astro file manager" ... there are many others...etc
your Ext_SDCard and USB storage is under the sub directory of /mnt
You should post in the "General" section...as this is the "DEV" section...
File Manager for Honeycomb.
I ran into this problem when I first got mine too.
The external sd card is actually showing in mnt/external_sd in your root folder
Basically this means that when you use astro file manager or root explorer and you open that instead of clicking on sdcard you click the folder listed as "mnt" then external sd
Thanks Guys.
Mods - Can you please move this to general Doh!

[Q] cannot move files (not app) from internal SD to external SD

After using google and forum search a while I am stuck with this problem.
on my i9000 I want to move files like jpg files from certain appfolders to my external sd card.
I tried to use different File explorers and tried to move for example a picture from the program folder of the app "multicam" on the internal SD card to a new cerated Folder on the external SD Card.
whenever I try to cut & paste it onto ext SD card, it sant be moved or just does not paste it... depending on which file explorer I use. I have SU rights for my file explorers and can't find a way to move the files.
Some files on the internal SD can be COPIED and PASTED onto the external and after that I have to delete the original Files from the internal SD. But why is CUT & Paste not possible?
is there something like protection oder chmod things, that has to be payed attention to ?
thanks for any hints what I do have to look for on the search function of xda-dev or google...
I have the exact same problem. Copy and paste works but Cut and paste does not.
I have both I9000 and Asus Transformer and in both of them this does not work. It's very frustrating when you have to frequently move files.
It happens to me too. I can't move, just copy and paste. For me is not such a bad thing, it keeps adding a "false" sense of security of having backups.
It works using root explorer.
Thx for the tip... I tried root explorer now and this works quite well. Now you can copy/cut + paste from any folder to each folder you like to. There are 2 settings available: r/o and r/w... read only and read write.
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Rooted Nook STG, issue opening files from SD card.

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Hello XDA forums,
Before I rooted my Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight, I had no problem sideloading books onto the SD card and opening them from the native Nook Library app. However, after rooting (with which everything seemed to go fine), the following behaviors happen:
I can see sideloaded epub files in the Nook Library on the SD card /My Files/Books directory, but
when I try to open any of them, I get an error that says, "This Nook, cannot read this file. It maybe an unsupported format", however,
if I go through the ReLaunch file manager, it opens fine in the native Reader app, and
if I sideload the same file by usb to the Nook's main memory, it will open fine from the Library, but
if I copy/paste the file from the SD card to the main memory via the ReLaunch file manager, I get the error message.
Puzzling... any thoughts?
Thanks,
Spindle
spindlehead said:
Hello XDA forums,
Before I rooted my Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight, I had no problem sideloading books onto the SD card and opening them from the native Nook Library app. However, after rooting (with which everything seemed to go fine), the following behaviors happen:
I can see sideloaded epub files in the Nook Library on the SD card /My Files/Books directory, but
when I try to open any of them, I get an error that says, "This Nook, cannot read this file. It maybe an unsupported format", however,
if I go through the ReLaunch file manager, it opens fine in the native Reader app, and
if I sideload the same file by usb to the Nook's main memory, it will open fine from the Library, but
if I copy/paste the file from the SD card to the main memory via the ReLaunch file manager, I get the error message.
Puzzling... any thoughts?
Thanks,
Spindle
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I am not familiar with Relaunch so was unable to check that angle. I did discover, to my surprise, that neither epubs nor mobis will open in the appropriate app from ES File Explorer! Jpegs and such do, but not those e-book files. So that was weird. I never would open them that way, but it's still unexpected. The " activity picker", or whatever it's called, can be really squirrely. I don't remember where the file is located any more but I once went to investigate it and found multiple instances of file associations, none of which worked...
Does the problem persist through a reboot? Do the epubs that refuse to open from the Library file manager have the little "n" in the lower right corner?
nmyshkin said:
I am not familiar with Relaunch so was unable to check that angle. I did discover, to my surprise, that neither epubs nor mobis will open in the appropriate app from ES File Explorer! Jpegs and such do, but not those e-book files. So that was weird. I never would open them that way, but it's still unexpected. The " activity picker", or whatever it's called, can be really squirrely. I don't remember where the file is located any more but I once went to investigate it and found multiple instances of file associations, none of which worked...
Does the problem persist through a reboot? Do the epubs that refuse to open from the Library file manager have the little "n" in the lower right corner?
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Thanks for the response. Yeah, the problem persists through reboot and indeed those epubs that refuse to open from the Library have the little n like they should. They just do not open
spindlehead said:
Thanks for the response. Yeah, the problem persists through reboot and indeed those epubs that refuse to open from the Library have the little n like they should. They just do not open
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Mmm... I'm sure you've tried this, but what happens if you transfer an epub via USB to the internal storage [file opens correctly in Reader from Library] and then cut/paste it to storage on the SD card? I know that's a pain and should not be needed, but I'm curious.
The only other idea I have is to try a different File Manager and see if transfers via that app give the same results (to test if this is a Relaunch issue, although I'm sure people would be going on about it if it were). I move files around all the time with my old version of ES File Explorer and never see any issues, but then I don't have issues copying to the SD card via USB either.
Mmm...maybe one other idea. I sometimes use Wi-Fi File Transfer to move epubs from my PC to the NST. It's a very simple app with a browser interface (on your PC). I've never experienced any issues with moving files that way--also saves wear and tear on the USB jack. If that gives epub transfers that are unreadable then the issue is deeper than the method of transfer.
nmyshkin said:
Mmm... I'm sure you've tried this, but what happens if you transfer an epub via USB to the internal storage [file opens correctly in Reader from Library] and then cut/paste it to storage on the SD card? I know that's a pain and should not be needed, but I'm curious.
The only other idea I have is to try a different File Manager and see if transfers via that app give the same results (to test if this is a Relaunch issue, although I'm sure people would be going on about it if it were). I move files around all the time with my old version of ES File Explorer and never see any issues, but then I don't have issues copying to the SD card via USB either.
Mmm...maybe one other idea. I sometimes use ffdfdf to move epubs from my PC to the NST. It's a very simple app with a browser interface (on your PC). I've never experienced any issues with moving files that way--also saves wear and tear on the USB jack. If that gives epub transfers that are unreadable then the issue is deeper than the method of transfer.
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Thanks again. I will noodle on those ideas and let you know what was the outcome.
Sooo... I never figured it out and just lived with it. However, this week (a year later), I had to update the Nook STG because there was a mandatory transport layer security update that made it unable to access the B&N store via the Nook without updating. The update wouldn't install on the rooted nook, so I returned the device to factory default then installed the update. I wasn't using any of the rooted capability anyway, other than to open books from the SD card. After successfully installing the update, the nook still would not open books from the SD card in the native nook library. Since, it appeared that the problem had nothing to do with the prior rooting, I figured it might have something to do with the SD card itself. I unmounted and reformatted the SD card via the Nook's built in utility, then reloaded my books. Viola!! The Nook recognizes and opens the books from the SD card now. It was apparently an incompatible card format or something... So, SOLVED.

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