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Originally Posted by tponzo

After much delay I tried the above and got the following error message:

calibre, version 0.8.69
ERROR: Failed to move library: Failed to move library

Move library from C:\Users\user\Documents\Calibre Library to C:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2\New Calibre Library
Python function terminated unexpectedly
[Error 5] Access is denied: u'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Calibre2\\New Calibre Library\\John Schember' (Error Code: 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 132, in main
File "site.py", line 109, in run_entry_point
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 186, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\library\move.py", line 21, in move_library
File "site-packages\calibre\library\database2.py", line 3485, in move_library_to
File "shutil.py", line 175, in copytree
File "os.py", line 157, in makedirs
WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied: u'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Calibre2\\New Calibre Library\\John Schember'
Thanks in advance for any reply

John is the author of the Calibre Quick Start Guide (among other things ).
This may be one of the times to go under the Skirts: Is the folder/File write protected?