Calibre Error

[kweezy]

Hi, I've just downloaded and installed Calibre 2.50.1 on my windows 8 pc and whenever I try to launch it, I get an error like this:
Pyhton function terminated unexpectedly.
(3, 'CreateFile', 'The system cannot find the path specified')
(error code:1)

I have uninstalled calibre, deleted the calibre2 file in the C program files folder, rebooted my pc and then reinstalled the program but it still gave me the same error. What I understand so far from looking this up is that there is a problem about environment variables? but I have no idea how to fix it. If anyone can help, I'd appreciate it.

[kweezy]

This is what I got when I did the debug -g.


Python function terminated unexpectedly
(3, 'CreateFile', 'The system cannot find the path specified.') (Error Code: 1
)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 132, in main
File "site.py", line 108, in run_entry_point
File "site.py", line 50, in load_module
File "site-packages\calibre\__init__.py", line 22, in <module>
File "site.py", line 50, in load_module
File "site-packages\calibre\startup.py", line 92, in <module>
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\localization.py", line 169, in set_translato
rs
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\localization.py", line 63, in get_lang
File "site.py", line 50, in load_module
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\config_base.py", line 448, in <module>
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\config_base.py", line 357, in __setitem__
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\config_base.py", line 371, in set
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\config_base.py", line 300, in set
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\lock.py", line 139, in __enter__
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\lock.py", line 31, in __init__
pywintypes.error: (3, 'CreateFile', 'The system cannot find the path specified.'
)
C:\Program Files\Calibre2\pylib.zip\calibre\ptempfile.py:35: RuntimeWarning: Par
ent module 'calibre' not found while handling absolute import

The system cannot write to the specified device.

[kovidgoyal]

That indicates that the location of your calibre config directory is set to a drive that ios not writable. You can control it by changing the CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY environment variable as described here: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cust...ment-variables

Set it to some directory for which you have write permission, like a directory inside your home directory.

[kweezy]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

That indicates that the location of your calibre config directory is set to a drive that ios not writable. You can control it by changing the CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY environment variable as described here: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cust...ment-variables

Set it to some directory for which you have write permission, like a directory inside your home directory.

That fixed it. Thank you.