[theboardrider]

Hello,

I have been using Calibre for a year or more and love the app, I'm a book junkie, love to own my own "copies," and am anal retentive so it's a dream come true.

However, just in the recent couple of months suddenly about 1/3 of the time I open the app it will tell me it cannot find my library. I'll reload it a couple of times, and then it will find it.

However, twice now, it's opened and said 'library is corrupted, would you like to attempt to rebuild and fix..." or whatever exactly that message says. The first time, I clicked yes, it worked on it a few minutes, and voila it continued to open and there it was.

But it just happened again today, however first it started to install the most recent update. However I already installed the update two days ago, and I hadn't downloaded anything new (I know for a fact, because I'm always really careful about it since it's not really an update only...but replacing the app with a newer version of the app each time) but when I opened it today, first it wouldn't find it a couple times, after closing and reopening it found it (I guess), but it automatically opened an update/downloading window (the very small rectangle type with progress bar, typical of when you move the new downloaded version into applications, or are processing any new download on a Mac).

Then it said library was corrupted and it needed to rebuild, so I clicked to allow this. However when it finished it said it couldn't rebuild it this time. So I closed the app and wasn't sure what to do. Figured what they heck to lose, so I opened it again....and it ran through and opened right up no problem, with all my book files.

FYI, I'm on a Macbook, with Calibre files located on an external drive that mounts automatically whenever my Macbook fires up. This has always been my setup so I don't know why suddenly it is acting up. I do seem to remember it started after one of the previous updates, but not totally sure.

Please help!