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DFT · 12-20-2013, 03:45 PM

Calibre is a great program, and works perfectly on my iMac. My current problem on my Macbook (same operating system) seems to be the result of strange interaction effect between the OS X Finder and Calibre when it tries to access the open file dialogue. Calibre otherwise works well, and so does Finder on other apps on this Macbook.

I tried to change the environment variable as kovidgoyal suggested. I did not succeed probably because of my incompetence. The external link ("how to set an environment variable in Mac OS X") has many steps and seems to be intended to affect all applications.

Since what I mainly wanted to do was simply to add a plug in, I tried to use the command line (in Terminal) calibre-customize --add-plugin, -a filename. This runs but produces an error: python script unexpectedly terminated.

I really appreciate that the creator of the program would reply, and so quickly, but I don't expect or deserve any more of his attention. I would like to be able to solve this problem, but it is obviously not crucial because I can continue to use Calibre on my iMac.

12-20-2013, 03:45 PM	#3
DFT Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2013 Device: ipad	Odd interaction Calibre is a great program, and works perfectly on my iMac. My current problem on my Macbook (same operating system) seems to be the result of strange interaction effect between the OS X Finder and Calibre when it tries to access the open file dialogue. Calibre otherwise works well, and so does Finder on other apps on this Macbook. I tried to change the environment variable as kovidgoyal suggested. I did not succeed probably because of my incompetence. The external link ("how to set an environment variable in Mac OS X") has many steps and seems to be intended to affect all applications. Since what I mainly wanted to do was simply to add a plug in, I tried to use the command line (in Terminal) calibre-customize --add-plugin, -a filename. This runs but produces an error: python script unexpectedly terminated. I really appreciate that the creator of the program would reply, and so quickly, but I don't expect or deserve any more of his attention. I would like to be able to solve this problem, but it is obviously not crucial because I can continue to use Calibre on my iMac.