Not sure where this belongs, but cannot bring up Calibre UI

[LJJohnson]

https://www2.mobileread.com/i/smiliesadd1/help.gif

I'm hoping that someone can help with this, because I'm stuck.

Sometime in the last 3-4 days (was offline some so can't nail exactly), I can't bring up the GUI for Calibre 6.17 64-bit. The program starts, gives no errors, goes thru "loading books" and "initializing user interface, then shows up as "started" on the taskbar (I have it pined there). But when I mouse over the icon, it shows a picture of a totally white, blank calibre screen. Clicking does nothing. Even tried double clicking, although not needed in taskbar, but no joy.

Noted the following:

• running 64-bit Calibre
• "initialling user interface" sometimes comes up pretty fast, especially since I have over 65,000 books listed.
• Renamed my primary library so it wouldn't load it, no help
• Removed Calibre 6.17 (been using since it came out), installed Calibre 6.11 - no joy
• uninstalling last system update didn't help
• uninstalling last 2 Dell updates (from this timeframe) didn't help
• Currently using Calibre Portable 16.7, and it opens with the current large database, and comes up fine. Ran Check Library from portable version, and it reports no issues. Obviously not a long term solution, but it keeping me going for now.
• No hard disk issues reported on that drive (1 GB SSD with half the space free) - chkdsk p: /f /x
• after opening dialog goes away, the computer is using 12% CPU and 16% memory (of 64 GB) and 0% Disk. When I'm doing heavy usage of Calibre, total Computer memory can go up to 40%+ (which is why I went from 32 to 64 gb memory)
• Calibre is then showing one main program, using 0.1% memory and 962 MB memory, a worker process (0% CPU & 8.7MG memory) and a Console Windows host (0% CPU & 5.7 MB) None of these figures change for at the 10 min I monitored after opening dialog went away ("initializing user interface")

I really want my full featured Calibre back. Any help or other things to try would help.

[kovidgoyal]

The window is probably offscreen https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq...ing-on-windows

[LJJohnson]

well, no luck with instructions.

The output from the debug confused me. the file it complains about doesn't exist, nor is there a reference to it in registry.

:\Program Files\Calibre2>calibre-debug -g
calibre 6.17 embedded-python: True
Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.19045')
Python 3.10.1
Windows: ('10', '10.0.19045', 'SP0', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: None
Successfully initialized third party plugins: Gather KFX-ZIP (from KFX Input) (1, 51, 0) && DeDRM (10, 0, 3) && Package KFX (from KFX Input) (1, 51, 0) && AudioBook_Duration (1, 0, 9) && Author Book Count (2, 2, 3) && Baen (1, 1, 0) && Calibre Power Search Plugin (2, 2, 0) && Check Books (0, 1, 7) && Count Pages (1, 13, 0) && EpubCheck (0, 2, 4) && EpubMerge (2, 15, 0) && EpubSplit (3, 6, 0) && Extract ISBN (1, 6, 0) && Find Duplicates (1, 10, 8) && Generate Cover (2, 3, 2) && KFX metadata reader (from KFX Input) (1, 51, 0) && KFX Input (1, 51, 0) && Set KFX metadata (from KFX Output) (1, 67, 0) && KFX Output (1, 67, 0) && KePub Input (3, 6, 3) && Kindle hi-res covers (0, 5, 0) && KindleUnpack - The Plugin (0, 83, 1) && LanguageTool (0, 1, 2) && Manage Series (1, 5, 1) && Modify ePub (1, 8, 1) && MultiColumnSearch (1, 0, 96) && Prettify Cover (1, 6, 0) && Quality Check (1, 13, 4) && Save To Format (0, 0, 6) && Smashwords Metadata (1, 0, 2) && Standard Ebooks (1, 0, 0)
QPA platform: windows
devicePixelRatio: 1.0
logicalDpi: 96.0 x 96.0
physicalDpi: 89.31868131868131 x 86.5909090909091
ApplicationPaletteChange event ignored
Using calibre Qt style: True
ApplicationPaletteChange event received
[0.00] Starting up...
[0.00] Showing splash screen...
[0.14] splash screen shown
[0.14] Initializing db...
[0.17] db initialized
[0.17] Constructing main UI...
Using QT6
Ya existen las librerias mutagen y rarfile
prettify cover: registry parse error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\gui2\ui.py", line 140, in __init__
File "calibre\gui2\ui.py", line 158, in init_iaction
File "calibre\customize\__init__.py", line 646, in load_actual_plugin
File "importlib\__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1050, in _gcd_import
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1027, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 688, in _load_unlocked
File "calibre\customize\zipplugin.py", line 199, in exec_module
File "calibre\customize\zipplugin.py", line 195, in get_code
File "calibre_plugins.savetoformat.savetoformatacti on", line 53
print 'Default saving'
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(...)?
EpubMerge: DEBUG: 2023-05-13 22:19:01,386: calibre_plugins.epubmerge.epubmerge_plugin(154): macmenuhack file_path:C:\Users\ljjoh\AppData\Roaming\calibre\p lugins\fanficfare_macmenuhack.txt
[0] un-optimized number of undesirable characters accumulated: 756
[1] optimized number of undesirable characters accumulated: 596
MCS has finished initialization...
[1.53] main UI initialized...
[1.53] Hiding splash screen
Starting QuickView
[1.58] splash screen hidden

[DNSB]

You might want to try a shift-right click on the calibre taskbar icon. Click on Move and then use the arrow keys to see if you can move the calibre window into the viewing area. The left and right arrows seem to work best for me since my dual monitors on the docking station are horizontal while I often use my laptop disconnected from the dock while up and down arrows work for a co-worker who has his monitors vertically stacked.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by LJJohnson

well, no luck with instructions.

If you're using Windows 10 try the easy way, post#2 ==>> https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=353833

BR

[LJJohnson]

DNSB, thank you, that did it. What a relief

BetterRed, that looks even easier, will remember if it happens again.

[theducks]

There WAS also an error in one of the plugins that someone might want to look at. ???

File "calibre_plugins.savetoformat.savetoformatacti on", line 53
print 'Default saving'
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(...)?

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by LJJohnson

DNSB, thank you, that did it. What a relief

BetterRed, that looks even easier, will remember if it happens again.

BR's method is easier but does not work with Windows 11 where Cascade Windows seems to have disappeared

[LJJohnson]

Microsoft gives, then Microsoft takes away. Not looking forward to upgrading to 11 at some point

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by DNSB

BR's method is easier but does not work with Windows 11 where Cascade Windows seems to have disappeared

I'm sure that moving the start button to the middle is a much higher priority.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I'm sure that moving the start button to the middle is a much higher priority.

Cosmetics seem to be many of the reasons to 'upgrade' an OS .

W7 was a massive step forward in reducing vulnerabilities. I had a USB HD TV tuner card that just worked (Media center).
I played with W8 in the Demo room at MS MTV (and Ubuntu seemed to follow that 'tile' thing. I guess it made sense on a touch screen,,, but ... ). Linux Mint got rid of some of that hated UI.
Then W10 landed on my laptop and my tuner no longer worked, many features of my Brother MFC disappeared
<rant>
Recently I helped a friend commission a new W11 laptop. Hoo-Boy. I had problems finding settings I frequently used. Are they taking control away from users, requiring a internet connection for everything (so they can mine your activity?) ?

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by theducks

Recently I helped a friend commission a new W11 laptop. Hoo-Boy. I had problems finding settings I frequently used. Are they taking control away from users, requiring a internet connection for everything (so they can mine your activity?) ?

They are definitely trying to make using a local user as hard as possible. Being asked 3 times to confirm that I wanted a local user and giving up all the "goodness" of having a online Microsoft user was more than a little annoying.

[ownedbycats]

When setting up a Windows 10 system for someone, I had to disconnect it from the internet entirely to convince it to let me make a local account.

Originally Posted by theducks

W7 was a massive step forward in reducing vulnerabilities. I had a USB HD TV tuner card that just worked (Media center).

I still think of Windows 7 as basically a glorified servie pack for Vista. But poor Vista got so much bad press (thanks to it being shoved on computers that could barely run even XP) that I don't really blame them for wanting to dump that.

Also, I loved Vista's green glass folder icons so much that I swiped them and use them on my current system.

[Quoth]

Yes, Win7 should have been free to Vista users. It is a SP of Vista really, and should be Win 6.0.1 or 6.0.2 (Vista is really Win NT 6.0, Win 2K is NT 5.0, XP is 5.1, Server 2003 is maybe 5.2, Not sure what the Itanium version of XP was, very short lived.)
I read rumour Win 12 is on the way.

But MS Word for Windows numbering was / is mad.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

When setting up a Windows 10 system for someone, I had to disconnect it from the internet entirely to convince it to let me make a local account.

Net command on console didn't work?