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Originally Posted by IAmConfused
Just to check my sanity I uninstalled Version 5.2 and installed Version 4.23
Problem vanished - appearance of dialog is virtually instantaneous.
Upgraded to version 5.2 (without uninstalling 4.23) and problem (significant delay between clicking the gear icon and the appearance of the advanced search dialog) results
At least I know how to avoid the issue  in the short term
Any insight would be welcomed |
When it finally pops trying re-sizing the dialogue box, then restart calibre.
Can you confirm - the delays in popping the Advanced Search and the single book Conversion dialogues:
- did occur in version 5.2
- did not occur in a re-installed version 4.23 (un-install 5.2, install 4.23)
- did occur in another upgrade-install of version 5.2
Can you try renaming the calibre configuration directory, you can access it via the
Preferences->Miscellaneous->Open calibre configuration directory button. It'll probably be something like "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\calibre".
After closing calibre, rename the directory to something like
calibre_save. Then start calibre again, that will create a fresh configuration directory automatically. Let us know what happens when you click the Gears icon.
If the dialogue popup delay persists, then
after closing calibre, you can delete the fresh configuration directory, and re-rename the
calibre_save directory to
calibre. And I'm out of ideas
If the dialogue pops instantaneously, then it's almost certainly something in the configuration data. My guess would be the file
gui.json, because that's where most of the window geometry data is stored. You could try renaming that (with calibre closed) to say
gui.save, and restart calibre - a fresh
gui.json will be created. If that solves the problem you could look for the data relating to advanced search and delete it from
gui.save and then swap it back to
gui.json.
But you might also want to wait for Kovid's insight
BR