Calibre not allowing add book or down load Metadata

[vickywink]

I have been using Calibre for years with no issues in the last few days I have been unable to add new books or edit Metadata. I am running 64 bit Windows 10 and bitdefender antivirus. The message I receive when updating metadata is:

Spoiler:

calibre, version 5.16.1
ERROR: Errors while adding:


Failed to add any books, click "Show details" for more information


----------------------------------------------------------------------

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\gui2\add.py", line 457, in add_book
File "calibre\db\legacy.py", line 334, in create_book_entry
File "calibre\db\cache.py", line 72, in call_func_with_lock
File "calibre\db\cache.py", line 1675, in create_book_entry
File "calibre\db\backend.py", line 920, in execute
apsw.CorruptError: CorruptError: database disk image is malformed


and when attempting to update metadata is:

calibre, version 5.16.1
ERROR: No matches found: <p>Failed to find any books that match your search. Try making the search <b>less specific</b>. For example, use only the author's last name and a single distinctive word from the title.<p>To see the full log, click "Show details".

Running identify query with parameters:
{'title': 'Freed by the Alien Bounty Hunter', 'authors': ['Elin Wyn'], 'identifiers': {'mobi-asin': 'B08WTGM19P'}, 'timeout': 30}
Using plugins: Google (1, 0, 2), Amazon.com (1, 2, 18)
The log from individual plugins is below

****************************** Google (1, 0, 2) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Google took 1.7027661800384521
Making query: https://books.google.com/books/feeds...ewability=none
No results found, retrying without identifiers
Making query: https://books.google.com/books/feeds...ewability=none

************************************************** ******************************

****************************** Amazon.com (1, 2, 18) ******************************
Found 0 results
Downloading from Amazon.com took 5.374261379241943
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.87 Safari/537.36
Server: auto
Making google query: https://www.google.com/search?q=Free...www.amazon.com
Ignoring 'Freed by the Alien Bounty Hunter: An Alien Mate Romance ...https://www.amazon.com › Freed-Alien-Bounty-Hunter...' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Claimed by the Alien Bounty Hunter: An Alien Mate Romance ...https://www.amazon.com › Claimed-Alien-Bounty-Hun...' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Elin Wyn: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks ... - Amazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › Elin-Wyn' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Avenged by the Alien Bounty Hunter: An Alien Mate Romance ...https://www.amazon.com › Avenged-Alien-Bounty-Hu...' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Elin Wyn: Kindle Store - Amazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › Kindle-Store-Elin-Wyn › rh...' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Elin Wyn: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle - Amazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › Elin-Wyn' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Elin Wyn: Books - Amazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › Books-Elin-Wyn › rh=n:28...' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Elin Wyn: libros, biografías, blogs, audiolibros ... - Amazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › Elin-Wyn' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Star Breed (10 book series) Kindle Edition - Amazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › Star-Breed-10-Book-Series' as it has no cached page
Failed to find any results on results page, with title: Freed by Alien Bounty Hunter Elin Wyn site:www.amazon.com - Google Search
No search engine results for terms: Freed by Alien Bounty Hunter Elin Wyn
Trying the bing search engine instead
Making bing query: https://www.bing.com/search?q=Freed+...www.amazon.com
Failed to find any results on results page, with title: Freed by Alien Bounty Hunter Elin Wyn site:www.amazon.com - Bing
No search engine results for terms: Freed by Alien Bounty Hunter Elin Wyn
No matches found with identifiers, retrying using only title and authors. Query: ['Freed', 'by', 'Alien', 'Bounty', 'Hunter', 'Elin', 'Wyn']
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.87 Safari/537.36
Server: auto
Making google query: https://www.google.com/search?q=Free...www.amazon.com
Ignoring 'Freed by the Alien Bounty Hunter: An Alien Mate Romance ...https://www.amazon.com › Freed-Alien-Bounty-Hunter...' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Claimed by the Alien Bounty Hunter: An Alien Mate Romance ...https://www.amazon.com › Claimed-Alien-Bounty-Hun...' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Elin Wyn: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks ... - Amazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › Elin-Wyn' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Avenged by the Alien Bounty Hunter: An Alien Mate Romance ...https://www.amazon.com › Avenged-Alien-Bounty-Hu...' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Elin Wyn: Kindle Store - Amazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › Kindle-Store-Elin-Wyn › rh...' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Elin Wyn: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle - Amazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › Elin-Wyn' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Elin Wyn: Books - Amazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › Books-Elin-Wyn › rh=n:28...' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Elin Wyn: libros, biografías, blogs, audiolibros ... - Amazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › Elin-Wyn' as it has no cached page
Ignoring 'Star Breed (10 book series) Kindle Edition - Amazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › Star-Breed-10-Book-Series' as it has no cached page
Failed to find any results on results page, with title: Freed by Alien Bounty Hunter Elin Wyn site:www.amazon.com - Google Search
No search engine results for terms: Freed by Alien Bounty Hunter Elin Wyn
Trying the bing search engine instead
Making bing query: https://www.bing.com/search?q=Freed+...www.amazon.com
Failed to find any results on results page, with title: Freed by Alien Bounty Hunter Elin Wyn site:www.amazon.com - Bing
No search engine results for terms: Freed by Alien Bounty Hunter Elin Wyn
No matches found with query: ['Freed', 'by', 'Alien', 'Bounty', 'Hunter', 'Elin', 'Wyn']

************************************************** ******************************
The identify phase took 5.54 seconds
The longest time (5.374261) was taken by: Amazon.com
Merging results from different sources
We have 0 merged results, merging took: 0.00 seconds

How do I fix this? I have tried updating the Metadata file which worked when adding 2 books then back to the same errorr.............................HELP

[kovidgoyal]

Most likely something is interfering with calibre, probably your antivirus/firewall. Try rebooting in safed mode and see if things work.

[vickywink]

I started the computer in safe mode and continue to have the same issues with loading new books. Is there a way to totally uninstall Calibre and do a fresh install as if it was never on the computer before? (remove all old settings and configuration)

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by vickywink

I have been using Calibre for years with no issues in the last few days I have been unable to add new books or edit Metadata. I am running 64 bit Windows 10 and bitdefender antivirus. The message I receive when updating metadata is:

calibre, version 5.16.1
ERROR: Errors while adding:


Failed to add any books, click "Show details" for more information


----------------------------------------------------------------------

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\gui2\add.py", line 457, in add_book
File "calibre\db\legacy.py", line 334, in create_book_entry
File "calibre\db\cache.py", line 72, in call_func_with_lock
File "calibre\db\cache.py", line 1675, in create_book_entry
File "calibre\db\backend.py", line 920, in execute
apsw.CorruptError: CorruptError: database disk image is malformed

How do I fix this? I have tried updating the Metadata file which worked when adding 2 books then back to the same errorr.............................HELP

Looks like your database is broken,

If you have backups of your data you should restore your library from it.

Otherwise you could try rebuilding the database via the <library name>Library maintenance->Restore database tool.

BR

[Harmon]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Looks like your database is broken,

If you have backups of your data you should restore your library from it.

Otherwise you could try rebuilding the database via the <library name>Library maintenance->Restore database tool.

BR

Came here with the same problem. Had already tried restoring the backup, which didn't solve the problem.

Rebuilt the database & it's all back to normal.

It's always nice to have your question answered before it's asked...