OK, I didn't give up....☺
I set up K4PC 2.4.0 (70904) (Last updated 09.06.2025) and registered it. It prompted me to update, which I declined and set to 'Not auto update'.
I then synced with Amazon and got my library. Hunted for the books with the long files names (see previous posts) and imported the books into Calibre. Interestingly, they had d/ld as azw files and imported OK. I could then convert to Epub OK.
So RESULT. [But probably not for very long...]
As an aside, one book still failed to convert, appearing as an azw but Calibre thinking it was a KFX-ZIP. Odd.
Job: 0 Convert book 1 of 1 (The Demon, the Hero, and the War for Widdershins: A Mal & Reg Novel of Widdershins) finished
Convert book 1 of 1 (The Demon, the Hero, and the War for Widdershins: A Mal & Reg Novel of Widdershins)
DeDRM v10.0.9: Trying to decrypt yyes0dqe.kfx-zip
Decrypting KFX-ZIP ebook: yyes0dqe
Found 9 keys to try after 0.8 seconds
Decrypting KFX DRM voucher: amzn1.drm-voucher.v1.e50accb8-e4c9-4536-baa0-d7dac7224b6e.voucher
Decryption failed, trying next fallback
Decryption failed, trying next fallback
Decryption failed, trying next fallback
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Exception: Incorrect padding - Wrong key
DeDRM v10.0.9: Failed to decrypt with error: Failed to decrypt KFX DRM voucher with any key
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.dedrm.__init__", line 950, in KindleMobiDecrypt
File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\calibre\plugins\DeDR M.zip\k4mobidedrm.py", line 204, in GetDecryptedBook
File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\calibre\plugins\DeDR M.zip\kfxdedrm.py", line 68, in processBook
File "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\calibre\plugins\DeDR M.zip\kfxdedrm.py", line 112, in decrypt_voucher
Exception: Failed to decrypt KFX DRM voucher with any key
DeDRM v10.0.9: Looking for new default Kindle Key after 0.9 seconds
searching for kinfoFiles in C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local
No K4PC kindle.info/kinf/kinf2011 files have been found.
DeDRM v10.0.9: Ultimately failed to decrypt after 1.0 seconds. Read the FAQs at noDRM's repository: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools...master/FAQs.md
Running file type plugin DeDRM failed with traceback:
So this seems to be the lack of a key but I thought K4PC had a default key built in....