[jeffery]

ok no errors produced this run. but nothing imported from the import folder. nothing deleted from it either. no real activity seen on the drive. just a few random maintenance like accesses. There are 2,852 books in the folder ready to be imported.

calibre Debug log
calibre 3.27 embedded-python: True is64bit: False
Windows-10-10.0.16299-SP0 Windows ('32bit', 'WindowsPE')
32bit process running on 64bit windows
('Windows', '10', '10.0.16299')
Python 2.7.12+
Windows: ('10', '10.0.16299', 'SP0', u'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: None
Successfully initialized third party plugins: Extract ISBN (1, 4, 4) && KoboTouchExtended (3, 0, 2) && Prettify Cover 0.9.12 && Modify ePub (1, 3, 13) && Kobo Utilities (2, 6, 0) && all recipes Recipe Reader (1, 0, 1) && Manage Series (1, 2, 8) && Kindle covers (G) (0, 3, 0) && Kobo Books (1, 3, 0)
calibre 3.27 embedded-python: True is64bit: False
Windows-10-10.0.16299-SP0 Windows ('32bit', 'WindowsPE')
32bit process running on 64bit windows
('Windows', '10', '10.0.16299')
Python 2.7.12+
Windows: ('10', '10.0.16299', 'SP0', u'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: None
Successfully initialized third party plugins: Extract ISBN (1, 4, 4) && KoboTouchExtended (3, 0, 2) && Prettify Cover 0.9.12 && Modify ePub (1, 3, 13) && Kobo Utilities (2, 6, 0) && all recipes Recipe Reader (1, 0, 1) && Manage Series (1, 2, 8) && Kindle covers (G) (0, 3, 0) && Kobo Books (1, 3, 0)
Turning on automatic hidpi scaling
devicePixelRatio: 1.0
logicalDpi: 96.0 x 96.0
physicalDpi: 56.4995121951 x 56.6530434783
Using calibre Qt style: True
[0.00] Starting up...
[0.00] Showing splash screen...
[0.05] splash screen shown
[0.05] Initializing db...
[3.70] db initialized
[3.70] Constructing main UI...
DEBUG: 0.0 KoboUtilites::action.py - loading translations
DEBUG: 0.0 KoboUtilites::dialogs.py - loading translations
DEBUG: 0.0 KoboUtilites::action.py - loading translations
DEBUG: 5.4 No Kobo Touch, Glo or Mini appears to be connected
DEBUG: 5.4 rebuild_menus - self.supports_ratings=None, self.supports_tiles=None
DEBUG: 5.4 KoboUtilities:set_toolbar_button_tooltip - start: text='None'
DEBUG: 5.4 KoboUtilities:set_toolbar_button_tooltip - setting to text='Utilities to use with Kobo ereaders

Driver: KoboTouchExtended'
[9.42] main UI initialized...
[9.42] Hiding splash screen
[12.09] splash screen hidden
[12.09] Started up in 12.09 seconds with 119645 books