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error communicating with device

Asked by Christian Dillo

Hi,

I'm getting an error message when trying to connect to ITunes and add a book: "error communicating with device." See problem log below. Mac OS 10.7.4 and Calibre 0.8.41.

In Calibre under menu item "Connect/Share" the option "Connect to iTunes" is inactive.

Hope someone can help,

Christian

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calibre, version 0.8.41
ERROR: Error: Error communicating with device

Unknown property, element or command: 'add'

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 82, in run
  File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 412, in _upload_books
  File "site-packages/calibre/devices/apple/driver.py", line 1074, in upload_books
  File "site-packages/calibre/devices/apple/driver.py", line 1352, in _add_new_copy
  File "site-packages/calibre/devices/apple/driver.py", line 1264, in _add_library_book
  File "site-packages/appscript/reference.py", line 580, in __getattr__
AttributeError: Unknown property, element or command: 'add'

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; apt-cache policy calibre

Thanks

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#2

You are using an old version of calibre.

Your PC is probably experiencing the following bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1012243

I suggest upgrading to version 0.8.65+dfsg-0~ppa1 of calibre.

First make sure you are using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (codename: precise) (not an older Ubuntu release!).

Then follow the calibre installation instructions for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (precise) here:

https://launchpad.net/~n-muench/+archive/calibre

Hope it helps.

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