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Originally Posted by Venus
Keep asking questions everywhere until your issue is solved. Ultimately, it helps us all.
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I wanted to test things to make sure the issue was resolved and it seems to be <knock on wood>.
I had installed SpiderOak and it seemed to work smoothly.
Then I started getting an error in Calibre when I tried to add a book or edit metadata. Given the error message at first I thought it was an issue with the propsys driver. But that was fine. Then I thought it was a plugin, but disabling them didn't help. The system restore I did caused issues with my cloud syncing (a whole other issue) and reformatting did not solve the issue. because it wasn't a plugin or anything to do with Calibre actually.
It turns out something about the way SpiderOak is added to the content menu (right-click/windows explorer) interferes with the dialogue box in Calibre. Or something. I confess it was over my head and I still don't understand why it caused the issue. I never would have figured it out on my own.
Long story short, I uninstalled SpiderOak and Calibre is running fine again.
That said, I am not going to put a shortcut/auto-sync link back to my Calibre libraries. Even though that was not the issue, a sync program accessing the database at the same time as Calibre is a very bad thing! I was very lucky that didn't cause issues actually.
I am also going to go back to backing up my Calibre libraries and digital library folder (where I keep my originals) once a month on DVD-Rom. I will continue to make USB backups every time I add books (clean up the metadata etc) and continue to (now) manually maintain a file for backup/access from my phone in the cloud. But I realized when I thought my libraries had been corrupted that as easy as USB backups are to do, if I really had somehow corrupted something the nature of USB backups (overwriting older files with newer ones) would mean those particular backups could be corrupted as well. That happened with one of my files (not book releated) during my reformat actually. I have always maintained backups of my important files in multiple mediums (DVD/CD-Rom, USB, cloud, etc), but I have gotten a tad lazy relying on the cloud.
So many, many thanks to Blossom for her help. And though backups weren't my issue,
please everyone make sure you backup your Calibre library(ies) and the preferences/configuration folder on a regular basis. And in more that one format so that if one backup fails you have others. It's too easy with computers to get complacement, and even when you do make multiple backups things can still go wrong, but that way you at least have options.