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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Didn't know that - my long standing 'best practice' policy is to keep data on a separate drive or partition
@Torontokp
What's its new location?
When you say you "can't download anything from the internet" I assume you mean via Calibre - eg metadata & covers etc. What about plugins - are you able to install any via Preferences->Plugins->Get new plugins, I think they may come from Mobileread!
When you download anything from the 'net then I think its written to disk, usually in the C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Temp folder - this is the one that's referred to in the link I posted before. I am guessing that Calibre's also getting permissions problems there - which is what the icacls command has been known to fix.
I think Calibre conversions also use the Temp folder.. so are you able to do a conversion?
Yesterday I had the thought - 'haven't seen any permissions problems for a while' - which leads me to ask is Windows up to date with patches? Maybe Redmond fixed something.
EDIT : If you have installed 64bit Calibre, try installing the 32bit version. Doing that has solved a few issues. You can have both installed - but you can only run one of them at any one time.
BR
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I used to do that when drives were small (40M) and slow.
Now I do that because computers are faster and modern data is huge (there were no quality audio or video files in the era of the PC-XT)