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Originally Posted by library addict
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.
So many, many thanks to Blossom for her help.
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Yay It's fixed! I was hoping with your last PM it was.
We played sleuth for a few hours this morning. Sad to say I love that type of stuff it's like a jigsaw to me. Woman vs PC!!!
I almost always win.
Basically SpiderOak uses it's own version of python so it was conflicting with Calibre's Open Dialogs. So when she would click something in Calibre that opens a window like Add book or Edit Metadata. SpiderOak would cause Calibre to throw up a error. We don't know why that is if it's because she uses Vista or just her system setup. Every PC is different so we may never know.
Using what Kovid posted about non Calibre code and after knowing how to create the error we were able to figure it was external source causing it. Once we rules out the plugins we had to find something else on the PC that uses Python. So LA had a light bulb moment and mentioned SpiderOak and I went and Googled and found they do use their own version of Python.
Mystery Solved!
And we did this with no Sleep at like 4 in the morning!
I am just so happy it's fixed! Calibre not working is like the end of the world for me. I'm sure LA feels similar.