Thread: Dealing with Kindle for PC/Mac 1.19 and KFX in calibre
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Old 11-22-2019, 10:19 PM   #658
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Originally Posted by milmom2005 View Post
... what is chmod -x doing? Why does Kindle crash when chmod -x is in effect? ...
As I understand it, renderer-test is a program inside Kindle For Mac/PC that's needed for KFX.

chmod -x /Applications/Kindle.app/Contents/MacOS/renderer-test disables renderer-test, which in turn causes Kindle for Mac to use Alf-friendly KF8 instead of KFX with the new DRM that Alf doesn't like.

However, disabling renderer-test (which is part of Kindle for Mac) messes up the closing sequence in 1.25+, causing Kindle for Mac 1.25.x and 1.26.x to crash when it closes.
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