[Maverynthia]

Originally Posted by Sabardeyn

Yes, thank you, that was the discussion I was trying to reference but could not re-located. While it isn't applicable here, it does seem to have helped us find the culprit.


Maverynthia,
Huh that is kind of odd because I was just using the Search the Internet plugin to look up a few covers yesterday. That plugin searched Google for images without issue so the two plugins must submit different requests to Google. I have not previously used Google Image Search.

The Google Search works fine, it's just the Image Search for covers using the "Download Metadata/Covers", it does fail on a single request as well, BUT it just brings up no covers and gives an error "No valid covers found" with the red X and then I just select OK with the current default cover selected and go back to the screen. I suppose it could be failing when there is no default cover and it can't find a cover either. Like the cover is just that brown book icon.

EDIT: I updated to version 1.5.0 and from another thread I had on here I was going to Advance > Misc. and saw the "Number of jobs 3" and the "Max jobs to cores". Since i have a dual core I put number of jobs to 2. Now it's giving me a DIFFERENT error! I'm going to try with ONE job and see what happens.

calibre, version 1.5.0 (win32, isfrozen: True)
Failed to download metadata: Failed: Download metadata for 137 books

Starting job: Download metadata for 137 books
Job: "Download metadata for 137 books" failed with error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\threaded_jobs.py", line 83, in start_work
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\metadata\bulk_download.py", line 236, in download
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\simple_worker.py", line 160, in fork_job
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\simple_worker.py", line 81, in communicate
WorkerError: Something strange happened. The worker process was aborted without an exception.

Called with args: ([808, 807, 802, 800, 801, 799, 798, 795, 796, 797, 794, 793, 791, 792, 789, 790, 787, 788, 786, 784, 785, 783, 782, 781, 780, 779, 778, 777, 776, 774, 775, 773, 772, 771, 769, 770, 767, 768, 766, 765, 764, 763, 761, 762, 759, 758, 760, 756, 757, 755, 753, 754, 751, 752, 750, 749, 748, 747, 746, 744, 745, 743, 742, 740, 741, 739, 738, 737, 736, 735, 733, 734, 732, 730, 731, 729, 728, 727, 726, 725, 724, 723, 722, 721, 720, 719, 718, 717, 715, 716, 714, 712, 713, 710, 711, 709, 708, 707, 706, 705, 703, 704, 702, 701, 700, 699, 697, 698, 695, 696, 694, 693, 692, 691, 690, 688, 689, 687, 686, 685, 684, 683, 682, 681, 680, 679, 678, 677, 676, 675, 674, 673, 672, 671, 670, 668, 669], u'S:\\TEMP\\calibre_ftto8o\\knicv2_metadata_bulk.l og', <calibre.db.legacy.LibraryDatabase object at 0x0460A390>, False, True, None) {u'notifications': <Queue.Queue instance at 0x08FEC828>, u'abort': <threading._Event object at 0x0900CBB0>, u'log': <calibre.utils.logging.GUILog object at 0x0900CA70>}