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Old 10-31-2021, 10:08 AM   #1
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Hi,
Sorry a newbie here, I have just installed Calibre and opened the application. I went to choose the folder where my books are to scan and add them but I get this error:-

calibre, version 5.31.1
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>Exception</b>:File dialog failed (return code 1): Failed to create COM object for file dialog: (HRESULT=0x80040111) 汃獡䙳捡潴祲挠湡潮⁴畳灰祬爠煥敵瑳摥挠慬獳


calibre 5.31.1 [64bit] embedded-python: True is64bit: True
Windows-10-10.0.17763 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.17763')
Python 3.8.5
Windows: ('10', '10.0.17763', '', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: en_GB
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\gui2\actions\add.py", line 305, in add_recursive_question
File "calibre\gui2\actions\add.py", line 273, in add_recursive
File "calibre\gui2\win_file_dialogs.py", line 256, in choose_dir
File "calibre\gui2\win_file_dialogs.py", line 211, in run_file_dialog
Exception: File dialog failed (return code 1): Failed to create COM object for file dialog: (HRESULT=0x80040111) 汃獡䙳捡潴祲挠湡潮⁴畳灰祬爠煥敵瑳摥挠慬獳

I have tried searching for, “calibre Failed to create COM object for file dialog,” but not found any results.

Please can someone assist with what I need to look at to resolve this?

Thank you for your help
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Old 10-31-2021, 11:44 AM   #2
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That usually means something is interfering witht he worker process calibre uses for file dialogs. You can work around it by telling calibre not to use native file dialogs by setting an environment variable, as described here: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cus...ment-variables
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Old 10-31-2021, 12:12 PM   #3
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That usually means something is interfering witht he worker process calibre uses for file dialogs. You can work around it by telling calibre not to use native file dialogs by setting an environment variable, as described here: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cus...ment-variables
Thank you, that fixed it
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