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Originally Posted by vinieux
I got Calibre portable maybe 5 or more years ago.
Because I wanted different libraries for different collections like Comics, Fiction books, non-fiction books, etc, I had created different libraries. For some reason Calibre refused to create these inside the Calibre Library folder in the Portable folder. It created them in the root folder as shown in the screenshot below. However, it worked just fine with this structure.
I used to back up the entire parent folder on an external and copy it onto any laptop I wanted (for example for my nieces who are avid readers) and it always worked just fine.
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Also, every time Calibre prompts me I update the portable version to the latest version so it is the very latest right now as well.
I cannot do a System Restore as it is a brand new laptop and it will delete all the official programs that my office has painstakingly installed.
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vinieux FWIW : if you took a System Restore Point now and did a System Restore tomorrow then your computer would be restored to as it is now - its not like a Backup/Restore. But that's by and by, I didn't realise we were dealing with a 'corporate IT' computer.
The good news is that the folder structure you posted looks right for Calibre Portable, the only thing that looks 'foreign' to me is the STDUViewer folder.
The Calibre Library folder is the default library, and libraries cannot be nested. Calibre Portable anticipates the libraries will located in the same folder as the executable which is exactly where yours are
It's my guess is that your office has configured Windows to prevent you running 'unofficial' software or 'sophisticated' software that spawns other processes etc like calibre does. I suggest for the time being you run off your portable drive as you've been doing, and liaise with your office IT and ask them to do whatever needs doing so that you can run installed calibre etc.
BR