portable Calibre starting problem from CD/DVD through autorun in windows

[priyasen]

Hi,

I have started the portable calibre from pendrive through autorun.inf . It is opening Calibre-portable.exe file . Its working fine . but From CD/DVD , It is showing the error like this " Python function terminated unexpectedly (5,'create file''Access is denied')" .

Kindly send the solution to this problem.

Thanks in advance
priya

[mbovenka]

Originally Posted by priyasen

I have started the portable calibre from pendrive through autorun.inf . It is opening Calibre-portable.exe file . Its working fine . but From CD/DVD , It is showing the error like this " Python function terminated unexpectedly (5,'create file''Access is denied')" .

Calibre needs write access on metadata.db and probably other places, so running directly from CD/DVD will not work.