[TeDeumLaudamus]

Hi all,

Downloaded the Calibre to help sort out my library, great software. I'm quite computer literate having studied some CompSci in Uni and working in Tech Supp but this is beyond me.

The first time I downloaded I just followed the instructions as usual, thinking no problems would come up. I added all my books from my external hard drive and they copied over fine into the Calibre folder. Then the software started acting up. It took me ages to open Calibre; it took me ages to edit meta-data; and most other functions it would just freeze and I'd have to restart and no changes would be saved.

It's not my external hard drive as it works fine with other programs running files from it - and in any case I tried copying over some files from my desktop into the software and the same freezing problem occured.

So I deleted and did a clean reinstall and disabled my AntiVirus and ran in Administrator mode.

This time the software ran smoothly. I was able to add books quickly, edit metadata, etc. I thought everything was fixed. Then I tried deleting those books (just as a test). Suddenly, the freezing problem again. I thought perhaps it doesn't like deleting things so I closed and re-opened the program - this time it reverted to previous behavior of just freezing and generally being totally unusable. It also created some odd deleted folders in my external hard drive with odd file names like "Deleted Wilbur Smith jubjbsdr"

I have never had software behave so... erratically I guess is the word. I don't even know what to trouble shoot. Can anyone help or give me a guess or something to try?

Cheers.