Hello.
Having seen that DeDRM now works with Calibre 5.0 and higher, I recently updated Calibre from 4.23 (that I had been using for well over a year) to the latest version.
I wanted to create a catalog, as I always do when I add some new e-books.
First I notice that Calibre is now far less tolerant than it used to be to any kind of mistake (which I personally would not call an improvement...) : in Calibre 4 it used to actually produce the catalog but warn me there were "some mistakes". Now it just won't do anything as long as there is even one mistake left (usually some REALLY big stuff like indexing "Paul Vidal de La Blache" as "Vidal de la Blache, Paul" without the capital L, wow, THAT'S really serious...). OK, I corrected the about 50 mistakes (not too bad for slightly under 27000 e-books, I guess).
I also notice that the process is faster than it used to be (around 2'30" instead of slightly above 3' on the previous version), but maybe it is because it fails before the end.
Because indeed then it STILL won't create a catalog, and I can't understand why. Maybe (just maybe) it is because apparently (from the log I get in the end) the software seems to think it is trying to create a catalog for a Kindle Paperwhite 3. Now I do own one (+ several other readers), but I hardly ever plug them to the computer, and I've always created the catalogs on the computer and only then transferred them to whatever reader I wanted them on. [EDIT : problem unchanged when I change exit settings to "default settings".]
Also I can't understand why the log says "Catalog_EPUB_MOBI" while my e-books also include many PDFs and a few books in other formats.
If someone can help me pinpointing the mistake and getting rid of it I would very much appreciate it. Else I would just have to revert to an older version of Calibre but I would somehow consider it a failure !
Here is the detailed log I get at the end (please note that it ends with "catalog creation complete", yet it says the operation failed, and I don't get any catalog at all...) :
THANKS A LOT to anyone who'll take the time to sort this out for a computer-only-slightly-literate reader...