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Originally Posted by itimpi
I have never had any problem with Calibre Portable keeping all settings as it migrates.
It DOES require that you keep the Calibre Library and Calibre Settings folders also under the Calibre Portable folder (which is how it runs by default) as well as the Calibre folder that contains the binaries, so installing it into Program Files is very inappropriate as that area tends to restrict write access.
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I second this. In my opinion, on newer versions of Windows you should never install anything under Program Files or Program Files (x86). If you make any changes to the files there, Windows may or may not use the changed versions, sometimes preferring its own phantom copies of old versions.
(Don't even get me started on why you should never store your documents under My Documents).
Try copying your calibre-portable folder from your old computer to some place NOT under program files. I've copied my Calibre Portable all over, and never had any problems with it opening the library. This includes on 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows.
Also, make sure you're actually running calibre-portable.exe in the calibre-portable folder, not calibre.exe in the Calibre subfolder.