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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
If you just leave it alone for several minutes does it eventually finish?
To prevent throttling on ffnet, the sleep time between requests was significantly increased version before the last. Long enough that calibre was entering the 'not responding' state according to windows.
The last version included code to reduce those sleep times for small update sets.
Quoting myself from an earlier post:
* The original post said thousands.
Throttling by ffnet is no longer a theory, but an established fact.
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It doesn't matter how long I allow the process to continue, it just doesn't finish. As an example I take a sample of 5 fics from FF.net in my library and try to update them. The process would start and the plugin would try to fetch the metadata for the stories. Sometimes it would get completed, but most of the times it would just get stuck at lets say 3rd out of the 5 stories (I would say out of 10 tries, 2 would succeed and 8 would freeze) and when I try to retrieve the calibre program, "Windows Explorer" would come up with the message that calibre is not responding and it would then close the program. Prior to this update I could update my entire library in one go, but after failing a couple of times yesterday, I tried to update in batches of 10-20 fics. But as I said, 8 out of 10 times, calibre would just freeze (No matter how long I allowed it) and then I would have to restart the program and start again.
I usually update my fics once in a week or 10 days and haven't encountered any problems prior to this update (Although the update of the entire library did take a long time), but trying to select 10 and going from there is a bit tedious, esp if you don't know whether the update would succeed or not. I have made the changes you suggested wrt choosing update instead of overwrite, but the issue is the process doesn't go beyond the stage of fetching metadata more often than not.
Hope this would be of some use to you. Thank you once again for the reply and hope you can provide a solution.