Thread: WARNING-on PC Calibre takes over MANY file associations
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Old 05-22-2015, 07:07 PM   #11
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calibre - What's new
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Release: 2.20 [20 Feb, 2015] - New Features

Windows: When running on windows 8 and newer register with default programs so that users can more easily select calibre or its viewer/editor as the default program to launch ebook files.

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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
I dont really care what you believe, I wrote the code for the calibre installer, and therefore I happen to know that it does not associate itself with anything. And, since calibre is open source you dont need to take my word for it, read the source.

You did something to make all those associations, you will need to figure out what. Or, just dont use calibre, no one is forcing you to use it.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
Recent versions of calibre will tell Windows what filetypes it can handle. This currently only happens on Win8, not earlier versions of Windows, specifically because Kovid has verified that Windows will NOT associate those filetypes by default, but will prompt you the first time to tell it which program you want to use going forward.

If Windows has done so anyway, it is not because calibre was designed to do so.

This does not happen to other people. If you can describe what non-standard behavior you might have performed that led to this, it is possible Kovid might be able to fix it from happening again. Regardless, lashing out here isn't going to help anyone.
These three 'posts' seem to be contradictory

@eschwartz - I know of an instance where the same thing happened on Windows 10 (not reported, because Win10 is in beta). That person solved the problem by doing a system restore to the state immediately prior to installing calibre. She did not attempt to reinstall calibre. She'll be in Sydney in a couple months when we'll look into it; by then perhaps, Win10 will be out of beta.

I also note that the screen shot posted by the OP is very similar to the list Preferences->Behaviour->Use internal viewer for - .BOOK, .IBOOK and IBOOKS are notable exceptions - which are 'owned' by Apple.

Could this be some sort of cross-over between Apple IBooks and calibre.

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