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Old 02-28-2021, 01:09 AM   #6
Agathyllus
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Default use of Calibre

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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
calibre does not register itself as the default handler for *any* filetypes. It informs the operating system of what filetypes it is *capable* of handling. After that what happens is entirely out of its hands.
Thank you all for the replies and may I carry on what I found.
Good, Calibre tells the OS what file types it can handle, and yes it does that admirably.

But as I said for some reason it seems to tell the OS that it can open every file type I click on, except those for which I have taken the type endings from the system settings,

I completely removed Calibre from the system. I hunted through the complete OS and wherever I found an entry mentioning Calibre I removed it.
It is gone. Now I reinstall Calibre from the official site.
Bingo, it does it again.

Calibre even tries to load as a book a link on an app such as Balena Etcher.

I attach a random file association screen capture that say it all
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