Calibre 0.8.70 not detecting my kindle

[Stu.James]

hello

I just updated my Calibre to 0.8.70 and it is no longer detecting my kindle.
I am running Calibre on Windows 7
Windows 7 File Explorer does detect the kindle
I have reinstalled Calibre and I have restarted the kindle as well

the output of the debug device detection is as follows.


calibre 0.8.70
Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 Windows
('Windows', '7', '6.1.7601')
Python 2.7.3
Windows: ('7', '6.1.7601', 'SP1', 'Multiprocessor Free')
USB devices on system:
[u'usb\\root_hub20&vid8086&pid1c26&rev0005',
u'usb\\vid_03f0&pid_0024&rev_0300',
u'usb\\vid_046d&pid_c016&rev_0340',
u'usb\\vid_0c45&pid_6430&rev_1627',
u'usb\\vid_0c45&pid_6430&rev_1627&mi_00',
u'usb\\vid_187c&pid_0521&rev_0000',
u'usb\\vid_1949&pid_0004&rev_0100',
u'usb\\vid_413c&pid_8187&rev_0517',
u'usb\\vid_8087&pid_0024&rev_0000']
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\scanner.py", line 85, in __call__
DriveError: No removable drives found
Drives detected:
Available plugins: ADAM ALEX ALURATEK_COLOR ANDROID ARCHOS7O AVANT AZBOOKA BAMBOOK
BLACKBERRY BOEYE_BDX BOEYE_BEX BOOQ BOOX COBY COOL_ER CYBOOK DBOOK E52
E71X EB511 EB600 EBK52 ECLICTO EDGE EEEREADER ELONEX ESLICK EX124G
FOLDER_DEVICE_FOR_CONFIG GEMEI GER2 HANLINV3 HANLINV5 ILIAD INVESBOOK
IPAPYRUS IREXDR1000 IREXDR800 IRIVER_STORY ITALICA ITUNES JETBOOK
JETBOOK_COLOR JETBOOK_MINI KINDLE KINDLE2 KINDLE_DX KINDLE_FIRE KOBO
LIBREAIR LUMIREAD MENTOR MIBUK MOOVYBOOK MTP_DEVICE N516 N770 N810
NEWSMY NEXTBOOK NOOK NOOK_COLOR NUUT2 ODYSSEY ORIZON PALMPRE PDNOVEL
PDNOVEL_KOBO PI2 PICO PLAYBOOK POCKETBOOK301 POCKETBOOK360
POCKETBOOK360P POCKETBOOK602 POCKETBOOK622 POCKETBOOK701 PRS505 PRST1
README S60 SHINEBOOK SMART_DEVICE_APP SNE SOVOS SPECTRA STASH
SUNSTECH_EB700 SWEEX TECLAST_K3 THEBOOK TREKSTOR USER_DEFINED
VELOCITYMICRO WEBOS WEXLER

Looking for devices of type: MTP_DEVICE
List of WPD PNP ids:
[u'\\\\?\\wpdbusenumroot#umb#2&37c186b&0&storage#vo lume#_??_usbstor#disk&ven_kindle&prod_internal_sto rage&rev_0100#b00e150114231wp5&0##{6ac27878-a6fa-4155-ba85-f98f491d4f33}']
No suitable MTP devices found

Looking for devices...
u'usb\\vid_1949&pid_0004&rev_0100'

Devices possibly connected: None

[kovidgoyal]

According to that debug output windows is telling calibre there are no removable drives:
DriveError: No removable drives found

If your kindle is actually being detected as a drive, what is its drive letter? Rebooting your computer might help. If that doesn't you can always use the connect to folder function in calibre (click the connect/share button).

[Stu.James]

Hello

It is connected as B:

[kovidgoyal]

Ah that will be why. The last calibre release ignores drives A: and B:. Assign it to a drive higher than B: and it should be detected again.