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Innula · 04-27-2016, 11:56 AM

For no apparent reason -- I'd not done anything that might obviously have affected Calibre -- yesterday I found I couldn't open any ebooks on my PC, though I had been reading them earlier in the day.

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling several different versions of Calibre to see if that helps, and also temporarily disabling my anti-virus, Emisoft (which I'd seen suggested in another thread). Didn't help.

The ebook reader opens, slowly, tries to load the book and then fails with the following message

Code:

calibre, version 2.55.0
ERROR: Could not open ebook: Failed to read book, C:\Users\Home\Google Drive\Calibre Library\Don Norman\The Design of Everyday Things (2135)\The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman.epub click "Show Details" for more information

Failed to connect to worker process

The debug log says,

Code:

calibre Debug log
calibre 2.55  embedded-python: True is64bit: False
Windows-8-6.2.9200 Windows ('32bit', 'WindowsPE')
32bit process running on 64bit windows
('Windows', '8', '6.2.9200')
Python 2.7.9
Windows: ('8', '6.2.9200', '', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Starting up...
Started up in 31.99 seconds with 1996 books
Worker Launch took: 10.3440001011

I don't know why it says Windows 8 -- I recently updated Windows 7 to Windows 10, and I've never used Windows 8 in my life!

Is it that the library is too large?

Any advice would be most welcome.

04-27-2016, 11:56 AM	#1
Innula Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2013 Device: Nexus 7	Calibre has suddenly stopped opening my ebooks. For no apparent reason -- I'd not done anything that might obviously have affected Calibre -- yesterday I found I couldn't open any ebooks on my PC, though I had been reading them earlier in the day. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling several different versions of Calibre to see if that helps, and also temporarily disabling my anti-virus, Emisoft (which I'd seen suggested in another thread). Didn't help. The ebook reader opens, slowly, tries to load the book and then fails with the following message Code: calibre, version 2.55.0 ERROR: Could not open ebook: Failed to read book, C:\Users\Home\Google Drive\Calibre Library\Don Norman\The Design of Everyday Things (2135)\The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman.epub click "Show Details" for more information Failed to connect to worker process The debug log says, Code: calibre Debug log calibre 2.55 embedded-python: True is64bit: False Windows-8-6.2.9200 Windows ('32bit', 'WindowsPE') 32bit process running on 64bit windows ('Windows', '8', '6.2.9200') Python 2.7.9 Windows: ('8', '6.2.9200', '', 'Multiprocessor Free') Starting up... Started up in 31.99 seconds with 1996 books Worker Launch took: 10.3440001011 I don't know why it says Windows 8 -- I recently updated Windows 7 to Windows 10, and I've never used Windows 8 in my life! Is it that the library is too large? Any advice would be most welcome.