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sunishun · 01-25-2019, 03:57 PM

Hello, this is my first post here.

I've been a very happy Calibre user for several years, the past few with my Amazon Fire 5th Gen.

Over these years, I sometimes get the Error Communicating with device. It's usually resolved by rebooting my PC and/or device. However, for the past three weeks, I've received the error and not been able to fix through reboots.

I appreciate any help I get for this issue. Here's the error:

Spoiler:

01-25-2019, 03:57 PM	#1
sunishun Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2019 Device: Amazon Fire 5th Generation	Error communicating with device, Cannot write to file, Unspecified error Hello, this is my first post here. I've been a very happy Calibre user for several years, the past few with my Amazon Fire 5th Gen. Over these years, I sometimes get the Error Communicating with device. It's usually resolved by rebooting my PC and/or device. However, for the past three weeks, I've received the error and not been able to fix through reboots. I appreciate any help I get for this issue. Here's the error: Spoiler: calibre, version 3.38.1 ERROR: Error: Error communicating with device Cannot write to file: hr=2147500037 facility=0 error_code=16389 description: Unspecified error Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 87, in run File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 510, in _books File "site-packages\calibre\devices\mtp\driver.py", line 218, in books File "site-packages\calibre\devices\mtp\driver.py", line 190, in get_driveinfo File "site-packages\calibre\devices\mtp\driver.py", line 180, in _update_drive_info File "site-packages\calibre\devices\mtp\driver.py", line 151, in put_calibre_file File "site-packages\calibre\devices\mtp\windows\driver.py", line 37, in check_thread File "site-packages\calibre\devices\mtp\windows\driver.py", line 441, in put_file WPDError: Cannot write to file: hr=2147500037 facility=0 error_code=16389 description: Unspecified error Last edited by PeterT; 01-25-2019 at 07:53 PM.