Calibre takes F-O-R-E-V-E-R T-O L-O-A-D

gearheart89 · 06-03-2015, 02:36 PM

Hey,

I have been using Calibre for years and enjoy using it very much. I run my copy of Calibre on a Flash Drive (San Disk 64 GB USB 3.0) which I misplaced around December. I updated to the Newest version of Calibre portable when I found it yesterday. To my dismay, when I tried to launch the Calibre portable app it didn't seem to load. I forgot about it but when I brought up task manager I found that the calibre task was running. I ended it and tried again with the same result.

I deleted the Calibre portable app, installed & tried to run it again. No Dice. I poked around on this forum for a while and found that if I wanted help I should probably run the Calibre-debug -g script (forgive me if that's not the right word). Below I've pasted the Debug log. Time stamps were added by me.

9:17
D:\PortableApps\Calibre Portable\Calibre>calibre-debug -g

10:15 (Aprox)
calibre 2.29 isfrozen: True is64bit: False
Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 Windows ('32bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '7', '6.1.7601')
Python 2.7.9
Windows: ('7', '6.1.7601', 'SP1', 'Multiprocessor Free')

11:23 (Aprox)
Starting up…

1:15
Started up in 3618.50 seconds with 409 books
(Gui Launched)

Before anyone asks, here's a few points:
1.) Although this is a flash drive, other portable apps run just fine without difficulty.
2.) While I was running this debug session no other portable app was running and I did not access the Flash Drive
3.) Although this is a corporate computer and as such I can not disable the anti-virus, I have run older versions of Calibre using this Flash drive on this very same computer without difficulty.

I did spend several hours reading through various forums on the internet, if this is a known issue with an easy solution, I apologize, but I didn't see it.

Thank you for your help

kovidgoyal · 06-03-2015, 02:43 PM

Something is interfering with calibre, most likely your antivirus. And no just because it did not interfere with older versions, does not mean it will not interfere with newer version.

chaley · 06-03-2015, 02:52 PM

My experience: I recently had to rebuild my windows 7 Pro/x64 computer. After all the updates etc were installed, calibre took forever to start, sometimes causing the entire computer to become non-responsive for 30 to 60 seconds. The solution: tell Windows Security Essentials to ignore calibre.exe. As soon as I did that the problem went away.

06-03-2015, 02:36 PM	#1
gearheart89 Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2015 Device: Kindle Fire (1st generation)	Calibre takes F-O-R-E-V-E-R T-O L-O-A-D Hey, I have been using Calibre for years and enjoy using it very much. I run my copy of Calibre on a Flash Drive (San Disk 64 GB USB 3.0) which I misplaced around December. I updated to the Newest version of Calibre portable when I found it yesterday. To my dismay, when I tried to launch the Calibre portable app it didn't seem to load. I forgot about it but when I brought up task manager I found that the calibre task was running. I ended it and tried again with the same result. I deleted the Calibre portable app, installed & tried to run it again. No Dice. I poked around on this forum for a while and found that if I wanted help I should probably run the Calibre-debug -g script (forgive me if that's not the right word). Below I've pasted the Debug log. Time stamps were added by me. 9:17 D:\PortableApps\Calibre Portable\Calibre>calibre-debug -g 10:15 (Aprox) calibre 2.29 isfrozen: True is64bit: False Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 Windows ('32bit', 'WindowsPE') ('Windows', '7', '6.1.7601') Python 2.7.9 Windows: ('7', '6.1.7601', 'SP1', 'Multiprocessor Free') 11:23 (Aprox) Starting up… 1:15 Started up in 3618.50 seconds with 409 books (Gui Launched) Before anyone asks, here's a few points: 1.) Although this is a flash drive, other portable apps run just fine without difficulty. 2.) While I was running this debug session no other portable app was running and I did not access the Flash Drive 3.) Although this is a corporate computer and as such I can not disable the anti-virus, I have run older versions of Calibre using this Flash drive on this very same computer without difficulty. I did spend several hours reading through various forums on the internet, if this is a known issue with an easy solution, I apologize, but I didn't see it. Thank you for your help

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06-03-2015, 02:43 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,334 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Something is interfering with calibre, most likely your antivirus. And no just because it did not interfere with older versions, does not mean it will not interfere with newer version.

06-03-2015, 02:52 PM	#3
chaley Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,436 Karma: 8012886 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Notts, England Device: Kobo Libra 2	My experience: I recently had to rebuild my windows 7 Pro/x64 computer. After all the updates etc were installed, calibre took forever to start, sometimes causing the entire computer to become non-responsive for 30 to 60 seconds. The solution: tell Windows Security Essentials to ignore calibre.exe. As soon as I did that the problem went away.

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