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Old 12-23-2011, 05:41 PM   #1
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How to speed up Calibre start?
Hello,

Is there any way I could configure Calibre so that it won't open EVERY .mobi/.epub whenever it start or opens a different library?
I notice Calibre every time it starts goes and open EVERY .mobi/.epub file.

My Calibre library has been growing for quite some time and I notice Calibre is getting slower to start. Now it takes more than one minute to start Calibre.

I started to split eBooks in different libraries but even to switch libraries it takes much more time than I would like.

Thank you,
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Hello,

Is there any way I could configure Calibre so that it won't open EVERY .mobi/.epub whenever it start or opens a different library?
I notice Calibre every time it starts goes and open EVERY .mobi/.epub file.

My Calibre library has been growing for quite some time and I notice Calibre is getting slower to start. Now it takes more than one minute to start Calibre.

I started to split eBooks in different libraries but even to switch libraries it takes much more time than I would like.

Thank you,
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Are you using Calibre.exe or ebook-viewer?
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Old 12-23-2011, 10:09 PM   #3
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calibre does not open any ebook files on start. Exclude the calibre library directory from your anti-virus scan. As a reference, my 20,000 book test library opens in under 10 secs

calibre-debug -g
Starting up...
Started up in 7.43191099167 with 20000 books
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Have the same issue, 14000 books
start caliber, stare at a white window (not responding txt in win title) for 1:32sec then it starts

Maybe I should do a clean install
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Old 12-24-2011, 07:40 AM   #5
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Old 12-24-2011, 09:25 AM   #6
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Curiously, I tried the debug statement myself and discovered calibre to state:
Started up in 2.58100008965 with 5000+ books

But, I get also a reasonable amount of warnings, like:

FT_Stream_Open: could not open FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/._StaticCache.dat'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/%StaticCache.dat'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/.AppleDouble/StaticCache.dat'
...
TT_Load_Simple_Glyph: Too many instructions (171)
TT_Load_Simple_Glyph: Too many instructions (177)
TT_Load_Simple_Glyph: Too many instructions (174)
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FT_Stream_EnterFrame: invalid read; expected 148 bytes, got 65
FT_Stream_ReadAt: invalid read; expected 128 bytes, got 65

All in all there are a lot complaints about missing fonts, so I expect that calibre can even startup more quickly when the above "issues" were resolved somehow.

Just my 2cts.
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You may have a corrupted font (or simply too many have been installed in Windows).
Try changing the font Calibre uses. Preferences: Look and feel
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Replacing the standard Calibre interface font MS Shell Dlg 2 [8pt] to anything else did solve the problem. After restarting though, font MS Shell Dlg 2 [8pt] does not seems to exist anymore. Curious.

My startup time improved to 2.32299995422 for 5000+ books

Question: As I never ever have changed calibre's default interface font, what does calibre uses currently as the real default font?

(yes, I could use the restore "default" setting, but I am afraid it will restore all other settings to their default too)
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Replacing the standard Calibre interface font MS Shell Dlg 2 [8pt] to anything else did solve the problem. After restarting though, font MS Shell Dlg 2 [8pt] does not seems to exist anymore. Curious.

My startup time improved to 2.32299995422 for 5000+ books

Question: As I never ever have changed calibre's default interface font, what does calibre uses currently as the real default font?

(yes, I could use the restore "default" setting, but I am afraid it will restore all other settings to their default too)
I don't know the default (That may have been it). Shell Dlg2 is probably a Pseudo font for the current Windows Theme (Dialog font) setting.

This has hit me also, but I tend to Advanced tweak the Individual Desktop settings
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The default is Shell Dlg 2 and yes, it is a pseudo font.
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Old 12-24-2011, 10:32 PM   #11
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From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.85).aspx

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MS Shell Dlg 2 simply uses the Tahoma font regardless of language. The main advantage of Tahoma over Microsoft Sans Serif is that Tahoma has a native bold font face. Its main disadvantage is that older operating systems might not have it installed, and might substitute a less attractive font.
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weirdly after using cmd to open, it now only takes 19seconds, instead of 1m30. so all's good

EDIT - Hrm, that was only after repeatingly opening Calibre

After restarting Windows, Calibre takes 2 minuets to load

Going to try a clean install of the program and see if that helps


EDIT 2:

Fresh install of Calibre and Yikes now even longer
C:\Users\transmit>calibre-debug -g
Starting up...
Started up in 129.690000057 with 13988 books

Seems like Boxing day is going to be a full re install of windows
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Old 12-27-2011, 07:41 PM   #13
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Well maybe it's not EVERY .mobi/.epub but lots of them and I said that because I saw that using sysinternals Procmon. My Interface font is "MS Shell Dlg 2 [8pt]". I did change the Ebook Viewer fonts to Cambria (Serif family), Segoe UI Light (Sans family) and Courier New (Monospace family).

Does anyone know what could be triggering this behaviour?

I installed some pluggins that could change Calibre behaviour: Extract ISBN and Find Duplicates.

Here are the stats to start calibre with different libraries:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2>calibre-debug -g
Starting up...
Started up in 87.4370000362 with 9453 books

C:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2>calibre-debug -g
Starting up...
Started up in 48.4930000305 with 14041 books

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00:32:36.6370256 calibre-debug.exe 6152 QueryOpen D:\eBooks\metadata.db-journal NAME NOT FOUND
00:32:36.6370585 calibre-debug.exe 6152 QueryStandardInformationFile D:\eBooks\metadata.db SUCCESS AllocationSize: 57,786,368, EndOfFile: 57,784,320, NumberOfLinks: 1, DeletePending: False, Directory: False
00:32:36.6370782 calibre-debug.exe 6152 ReadFile D:\eBooks\metadata.db FAST IO DISALLOWED Offset: 24, Length: 16
00:32:36.6370948 calibre-debug.exe 6152 ReadFile D:\eBooks\metadata.db SUCCESS Offset: 24, Length: 16, Priority: Normal
00:32:36.6371590 calibre-debug.exe 6152 UnlockFileSingle D:\eBooks\metadata.db FAST IO DISALLOWED Offset: 1,073,741,826, Length: 510
00:32:36.6371744 calibre-debug.exe 6152 UnlockFileSingle D:\eBooks\metadata.db SUCCESS Offset: 1,073,741,826, Length: 510
00:32:36.6374554 calibre-debug.exe 6152 QueryOpen D:\eBooks\Doranna Durgin\A Feral Darkness (7244)\A Feral Darkness - Doranna Durgin.epub SUCCESS CreationTime: 20-12-2011 20:29:52, LastAccessTime: 20-12-2011 20:29:52, LastWriteTime: 18-01-2011 19:02:53, ChangeTime: 20-12-2011 20:29:52, AllocationSize: 348,160, EndOfFile: 346,943, FileAttributes: A
00:32:36.6376009 calibre-debug.exe 6152 QueryOpen D:\eBooks\Doranna Durgin\A Feral Darkness (7244)\A Feral Darkness - Doranna Durgin.epub SUCCESS CreationTime: 20-12-2011 20:29:52, LastAccessTime: 20-12-2011 20:29:52, LastWriteTime: 18-01-2011 19:02:53, ChangeTime: 20-12-2011 20:29:52, AllocationSize: 348,160, EndOfFile: 346,943, FileAttributes: A
00:32:36.6377236 calibre-debug.exe 6152 LockFile D:\eBooks\metadata.db FAST IO DISALLOWED Exclusive: True, Offset: 1,073,741,824, Length: 1, Fail Immediately: True
00:32:36.6377399 calibre-debug.exe 6152 LockFile D:\eBooks\metadata.db SUCCESS Exclusive: True, Offset: 1,073,741,824, Length: 1, Fail Immediately: True
00:32:36.6377574 calibre-debug.exe 6152 LockFile D:\eBooks\metadata.db FAST IO DISALLOWED Exclusive: False, Offset: 1,073,741,826, Length: 510, Fail Immediately: True
00:32:36.6377719 calibre-debug.exe 6152 LockFile D:\eBooks\metadata.db SUCCESS Exclusive: False, Offset: 1,073,741,826, Length: 510, Fail Immediately: True
00:32:36.6377891 calibre-debug.exe 6152 UnlockFileSingle D:\eBooks\metadata.db FAST IO DISALLOWED Offset: 1,073,741,824, Length: 1
00:32:36.6378036 calibre-debug.exe 6152 UnlockFileSingle D:\eBooks\metadata.db SUCCESS Offset: 1,073,741,824, Length: 1
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Well maybe it's not EVERY .mobi/.epub but lots of them and I said that because I saw that using sysinternals Procmon. My Interface font is "MS Shell Dlg 2 [8pt]". I did change the Ebook Viewer fonts to Cambria (Serif family), Segoe UI Light (Sans family) and Courier New (Monospace family).

Does anyone know what could be triggering this behaviour?

I installed some pluggins that could change Calibre behaviour: Extract ISBN and Find Duplicates.

Here are the stats to start calibre with different libraries:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2>calibre-debug -g
Starting up...
Started up in 87.4370000362 with 9453 books

C:\Program Files (x86)\Calibre2>calibre-debug -g
Starting up...
Started up in 48.4930000305 with 14041 books
By any chance is D: your device?
That is how Calibre determines what is on the device, NOT the main Library
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