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Originally Posted by macarmua
I've been trying to download new stories for a couple of weeks (updating the plugin every time an update came out) but every time it gets frozen after collecting the metadata and won't show any progress (and won't let me cancel either, I have to force close Calibre to reset it). It has no trouble updating existing stories, and the outcome is the same whether I use archiveofourown or fanfiction.net urls. Any tips on how can I fix it?
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From the description, I'd suspect your AV or a firewall blocking connections, but there's no difference in how FFF operates collecting metadata between an update and a new download. We had a user recently behind a firewall they had to VPN out through first.
Are you downloading tons of stories? Some sites will start applying different variations of blocking if they think you're overdoing it.
You can try the usual brute force solutions such as: reboot, reinstall Calibre, reinstall FFF.
To actually troubleshoot, you can run Calibre in debug mode (under Preferences dropdown) and see what the output says.