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					Originally Posted by  Dopedangel
					 
				 
				9 out of 10 times calibre crashes or takes so long is with adding pdf files with get metadata from file enabled ... 
			
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 It appears that updating to 0.8.54 (new as of today, 2012-05-31) resolves this issue
From the release notes:
Bug Fixes
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Never crash when reading metadata from PDF files (reading now always happens in a worker process) 
Closes tickets: 1006452
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