Hi Ronni, thanks for that. It seems my Mac is not getting past the first hurdle. Yesterday I gave it a long time after the external drive (this is where the epub files reside) had stopped flickering suggesting the Move operation was complete - or in a state of stall perhaps. I have a feeling that because the location of them on my external drive is NOT the path that iBooks perceives as where they would have been in a properly ordered iTunes library of books, then it hasn’t actually found my current library of books. As my iTunes music library is set to a path on an external drive and the epubs are in another folder on that external drive, I think the path is broken.
In any case, iBooks never reaches a state of ‘completion’ to enable me to drop the epubs into it. So I am still stuck. Perhaps if I were to drop the pubs into the folder that iBooks is trying to Move them from, then it would locate them. In the final state, I would prefer the pubs to be on the external drive as well, so in the Move operation I suspect it is going to drop them into the [~/ Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/ iBooks/Books] location. Is there a way of avoiding this? I could try to start iBooks with the external drive not attached and then once I reach a state of ‘ready for use’, then reattach and drop them into the iBooks window by trialling just a few to test the process. Regards Pete. On 22 Feb 2014, at 11:52 pm, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > I have Mavericks and iBooks takes any ePub or PDF I drop into it just fine, > and syncs them to my iPad and iPhone. > iBooks accepts .epub format eBooks, & PDFs - Kindle accepts .mobi format > eBooks. > > A little information about iBooks on Mavericks: > > You put the eBooks in iBooks. Then iTunes syncs (through the iBooks Store) > where your book-specific info is stored in your account, so you must be > logged in to the store on each device) (although not necessarily at the same > time) in order for the information to be uploaded from one place to the cloud > and then downloaded to another. > Syncing isn’t limited to iBooks Store purchases. Other books you put in > iBooks—those downloaded from the Web, for instance—can still have their > bookmarks and annotations synced across devices. > > On the Mac, the books are stored (as you have already found), in a series of > folders inside a folder that’s normally hidden from users. > The path is ~/ Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/ > iBooks/Books, and it’s the Library folder in the path that’s hidden. > (You can access this Library folder from the Finder by holding Option as you > open the Go menu, and then choose Library; after that, open each of the > folders named in that folder path.) > And inside this enigma are: folders for each of your books, named with long > random-looking strings of alphanumeric characters and containing many odd > files and sometimes other folders. PDFs, however, sit calmly inside that > inner Books folder without subfolders or substitute names. > It’s obvious that we are not meant to enter this sanctum. And there’s little > reason to. Store-bought books can be downloaded again if anything happens to > your iBooks copy, and items you installed in another way (from the Web, for > instance) are only copies of the original, and can be copied from iBooks by > merely dragging them out of the Library window. > > iTunes-iBooks Transfer: > If you’ve used iBooks on your mobile device and synced your books through > iTunes, and then upgraded to Mavericks, you have a ready-made library to > transfer onto the waiting shelves of Mac iBooks. > > The first time you launch iBooks, it checks if you have an iTunes library of > books and, if so, it grabs them all. > If you have other ebook files & PDFs, you can add them to iBooks on the Mac. > - ePub files, from within iBooks: Choose File > Add to Library, or dropping > it onto the iBooks icon in the Dock, or dragging it into the iBooks Library > window. > PDFs, drag & drop works both onto the iBooks icon & into the iBooks Library > window. > > Note: The file is copied into iBooks; the original file remains wherever you > left it. So, if you delete it from iBooks, it’s the copy in your Library > that’s erased, not the original. > > Over 9000 ePub files to move is going to take a long time to add to iBooks > Library. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > On 22 Feb 2014, at 5:03 pm, Peter Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, I have some epub files on an external drive that were in my previous >> iTunes library and now I have moved to Mavericks, iBooks is now a standalone >> app. When iBooks starts up it says “iBooks is moving your library …”. >> Shortly after it quits saying “iBooks has quit unexpectedly but will >> continue to move your library”. I’ve located where the iBooks storage folder >> is in the library and only a few files have moved over - I have over 9000 of >> them - (don’t ask). >> >> So I wait quite a while for the external drive light to stop flickering - >> and still just a few epubs in place. Still iBooks will not complete the >> process. Lots of online chatter on the same issue - is iBooks ok for anyone >> here? >> >> Any ideas how I can read these now or do i have to go to Kindle? >> >> Regards >> >> Pete. > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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