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Old 03-12-2025, 10:05 PM   #37
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Originally Posted by abrogard View Post
You're saying it is a corrupt calibre install or you're saying that as calibre.exe runs the write functions are intercepted or such?
Any ideas on how to deal with it?
I never heard of 'inserting code' into a running process... how's that done? and how does it get found out?
You didn't look at the logfile did you?
It's how every antivirus with "live protection" on windows operates, for instance. Every write made by a processes gets intercepted and scanned for safety before being allowed to hit the filesystem. Similarly network operations are intercepted, etc etc.

No I didnt look at the log file, it's pointless I know perfectly well that calibre does not make 2 million writes when updating metadata for a single book. So they cant be coming from calibre code, a metadata update is literally updating a few rows in a sqlite database, proportional to the number of columns/fields you have in your library. And then there will be an eventual backup which is another single write to an OPF file.
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