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Originally Posted by chaley

For calibre, 12,000 books isn't that many but it could matter depending on the computer you are using and where the library is stored.

I am using a few years old laptop, but it isn't especially slow in most operations so I'm not sure how much it contributes to the issue. It has 8GB memory and Intel Core i5 CPU. The library is stored locally on the C Drive.

Originally Posted by chaley

First question: have you ever waited for some time to see if calibre becomes responsive again?

I have, and it does start working again eventually.

Originally Posted by chaley

Last suggestion: sometimes the calibre database gets quite large as it collects detritus from change operations. An overly large library database can be slow. Running Library maintenance / Check library (click on the Library button to see this choice) will compact the database. You don't need to run "Check if files" step (but I would just to see).

Tried this before anything else. The first check found no errors. Check files found 5 extra titles and 4 extra authors, which I deleted.

Originally Posted by chaley

• How is the library sorted? Is it a complicated sort using composite columns (columns built from other columns), especially those that touch the disk to get information about formats?
• Do you have a VL active?
• Are you running 32- or 64-bit calibre? It is hard to imagine that this matters, but it might.

• I do have many composite columns, but I just tested adding a template when the sorting was on the title, and it still froze.
• I do not.
• 64-bit.

Originally Posted by chaley

Last question: have you run it in debug mode? I doubt it would show anything but one never knows.

I tried just now, but it doesn't seem to snow anything related.

Spoiler:

EpubMerge: DEBUG: 2021-07-18 17:05:21,438: calibre_plugins.epubmerge.epubmerge_plugin(158): macmenuhack file_path:C:\Users\Felhasználó\AppData\Roaming\calibre\plugins\fanficfare_macmenuhack.txt
FFF: DEBUG: 2021-07-18 17:05:21,464: calibre_plugins.fanficfare_plugin.fff_plugin(221): Plugin FanFicFare macmenuhack file_path:C:\Users\Felhasználó\AppData\Roaming\calibre\plugins\fanficfare_macmenuhack.txt
calibre Debug log
calibre 5.21 [64bit]  embedded-python: True is64bit: True
Windows-10-10.0.19041 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.19041')
Python 3.8.5
Windows: ('10', '10.0.19041', '', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: en_GB
Integration status: True
Successfully initialized third party plugins: Audit Log (1, 0, 16) && Count Pages (1, 11, 0) && EpubMerge (2, 11, 0) && F_rating (3, 2, 0) && FanFicFare (4, 3, 0) && Goodreads (1, 5, 1) && Goodreads More Tags (1, 2, 1) && Goodreads_Rating (3, 1, 0) && Job Spy (1, 0, 190) && Reading List (1, 7, 6) && Save Composite Custom Columns (1, 1, 1)
calibre 5.21 [64bit]  embedded-python: True is64bit: True
Windows-10-10.0.19041 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.19041')
Python 3.8.5
Windows: ('10', '10.0.19041', '', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: en_GB
Successfully initialized third party plugins: Audit Log (1, 0, 16) && Count Pages (1, 11, 0) && EpubMerge (2, 11, 0) && F_rating (3, 2, 0) && FanFicFare (4, 3, 0) && Goodreads (1, 5, 1) && Goodreads More Tags (1, 2, 1) && Goodreads_Rating (3, 1, 0) && Job Spy (1, 0, 190) && Reading List (1, 7, 6) && Save Composite Custom Columns (1, 1, 1)
Turning on automatic hidpi scaling
devicePixelRatio: 1.0
logicalDpi: 120.0 x 120.0
physicalDpi: 141.7674418604651 x 142.13471502590673
Using calibre Qt style: True
[0.00] Starting up...
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[12.94] Initializing db...
[18.81] db initialized
[18.81] Constructing main UI...
Job Spy has begun initialization...
Calibre, and hence Job Spy, was gracefully shut down last time?  True
Last time daemon started:  never
Last time daemon failed:  never
Total daemon starts inception_to_date:  0
Total daemon failures inception-to-date:  0
wildcard specified in Job Spy last-viewed tool active library names, which includes:  Calibre Ao3 Library
>>>[2] update_last_viewed_custom_column_automatically_control initialization_complete 'method' object is not connected
ERROR: extract_plugin_resources Exception:  'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xe1' in position 17: ordinal not in range(128)
Job Spy has finished initialization...
[249.27] main UI initialized...
[249.27] Hiding splash screen
Starting QuickView
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[250.88] Started up in 250.88 seconds with 12339 books
plugin Save Composite Custom Columns library C:\Users\Felhasználó\Documents\MEGAsync\Calibre Ao3 Library: updated 12339 books in 0:00:13.371089