[MontyJ]

Thanks for the tips!

i went through a little process of backup/copy/paste to see which of the folders/files in the folder would work and do anything. Here is what, so far, I have found:

These from my backup cause Calibre to NOT launch:
gui.json
gui.py
customize.py
history.plist
save_to_disk.py **

These folders/files from my backup allow Calibre to launch:

Folder--metadata-resources
Folder--conversion
Folder--plugins
edit-book-dynamic.pickle
tweaks.py
iterator.pickle
mtp_devices.json

However, when I got to the save_to_disk.py file, Calibre threw up an error msg on launch, but would not launch. After closing the error message, Calibre then failed to launch from ghe GUI. When I ran "calibre" from a su command prompt, it will launch, but starts at the wizard level again.

Also, I am not sure anything changed even when I was able to launch with the old files. I got all the plugin folder in and it worked, I did not see any changes. Example: There were no user plugins showing at all after restarting Calibre, and I have none showing. The plugin "Find Duplicates.zip" and "Find Duplicates.json" are there, but do not show up as installed.

I suppose I might be able to 'import them from file' to reload them, but now I have to start over as the last thing I tried (** above) has locked me out again and removing it did not let me back in like the ones previous had.

I am beginning to think there are simply too many dependencies in the various installation folders scattered all over for his process to ever work and I am doomed to either start all over with my customizations or go back to V1.28. :-(

Monty