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Originally Posted by Chris_Snow
Can I run two versions of 64bit calibre on the same machine? Don't have to run at the same time, but will installing a ealier version upset the current one?
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My recollection is that Windows XP was pretty pernickety about such things, hasn't gotten any better since, probably worse. I try to avoid doing it - if push comes to shove I use a VM (Virtual Box), but I have never needed to do it for calibre.
Whenever I want to look at an old version I install the portable version, e.g. if I wanted to look at version 2.16, I would download that portable and 'install' it well away from my system drive.
Portable is the 32bit edition with a simple wrapper, the wrapper terminates once it starts its calibre.exe. I'm told you can replace the contents of the
...\Calibre Portable\Calibre folder with the contents of
%SystemDrive%\Program Files\Calibre2 -- I've never had the need or urge to do it.
FYI - the Check library tool has 3 phases, the first one cleans the database (vacuum in SQLite parlance), the second one does database integrity checking (foreign key matching etc), the third reconciles the database tables/rows with the author and book folders and their contents. The third phase is the only one where I've ever had to take action. Always because of a blunder on my part - e.g. unpacking a CBZ, renaming/removing/adding some jpegs, creating a new CBZ, and neglecting to clean up.
- have you gotten rid of the manufacturer bloat. This is my first non-homebrew PC (apart from a couple of notebooks), its a Dell XPS 8920. It had enough bloat on board to sink battleship, first thing I did was to disable, uninstall much of it, I'm cogitating on doing a barebones install from MS media.
Just for fun, I installed 1.48 and 3.4 on on my internal SATA3 hard disk (I had the installs in my s/w install locker). start up times are sub 2 secs (practically instantaneous) - this is with the startup library, with no customisation or plugins, and no splash screen. The 1.48 might be a smidgen (as in 100-250 milliseconds) faster.
But, here's the rub... if I restart either in debug mode, it reports start up times anywhere between 1.55 and 11.23 seconds. But measured on a hand held stop watch, they are more like 6-9 secs
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