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manawydan · 03-08-2014, 12:23 PM

Ok, I am running into a lot of errors with my Calibre due to reasons not quite clear now.
One is probably a screen magnifyer but Calibre causes problems and crashes even without it.
Due to this I can't do some stuff anylonger (e.g. check library or even open the tag browser).

Anyway, I thought using a command line instead of the GUI might help.
But how do I do it?

I read the manual but it does not explain it for dummies.
http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cli/calibredb.html#

It also says there it could check the database with is one of the things I'd like to try.
Again, what do I do, where do I type the commands etc.? It is obviously not the command prompt in Windows ..

I run
Windows XP Professional, sp3
Calibre Portable 1.26.

03-08-2014, 12:23 PM	#1
manawydan Connoisseur Posts: 99 Karma: 603096 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: none	Calibre command line - how to use and can it check the database? Ok, I am running into a lot of errors with my Calibre due to reasons not quite clear now. One is probably a screen magnifyer but Calibre causes problems and crashes even without it. Due to this I can't do some stuff anylonger (e.g. check library or even open the tag browser). Anyway, I thought using a command line instead of the GUI might help. But how do I do it? I read the manual but it does not explain it for dummies. http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cli/calibredb.html# It also says there it could check the database with is one of the things I'd like to try. Again, what do I do, where do I type the commands etc.? It is obviously not the command prompt in Windows .. I run Windows XP Professional, sp3 Calibre Portable 1.26.