Error adding books and plugins

[sininenkuu]

This error just started yesterday. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling Calibre to the latest version, and it still persists. It appears when adding new books, and adding new plugins, but updating plugins worked just fine. Any and all help greatly appreciated!

calibre, version 3.16.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>Exception</b>:File dialog failed (return code 1073741845): Assertion failed: Successful WSASTARTUP not yet performed (..\..\..\..\src\signaler.cpp:192)


calibre 3.16 [64bit] embedded-python: True is64bit: True
Windows-10-10.0.16299-SP0 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.16299')
Python 2.7.12+
Windows: ('10', '10.0.16299', 'SP0', u'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: None
Successfully initialized third party plugins: DeDRM (6, 3, 4) && Kindle and Mobipocket DeDRM (0, 4, 19) && Ignoble Epub DeDRM (0, 2, 6) && Inept PDF DeDRM (0, 2, 0) && Inept Epub DeDRM (0, 2, 1) && eReader PDB 2 PML (0, 0, 8) && Find Duplicates (1, 6, 3) && Diaps Editing Toolbag (0, 3, 5) && Kindle Collections (1, 7, 17)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\actions\add.py", line 424, in add_books
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\win_file_dialogs.py", line 252, in choose_files
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\win_file_dialogs.py", line 206, in run_file_dialog
Exception: File dialog failed (return code 1073741845): Assertion failed: Successful WSASTARTUP not yet performed (..\..\..\..\src\signaler.cpp:192)

[JSWolf]

Watch the following YouTube video and follow the directions.

[kovidgoyal]

Something on your computer, most likely the anti-virus is blocking the calibre
helper process for file dialogs (calibre-file-dialog.exe). Disable the
antivirus or add an exception for calibre-file-dialog.exe and you should be
fine. Alternatively, you can tell calibre to not use native file dialogs, which
avoids the helper process, by setting the CALIBRE_NO_NATIVE_FILEDIALOGS
environment variable to 1 as described here:
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cus...ment-variables

[sininenkuu]

Thank you, JSWolf and kovidgoyal. I tried both of your suggestions to no avail. I went back and looked at what may have changed to my system between the time that Calibre worked and when it broke. It turns out that I had updated NetDrive from version 2 to 3. Once I disabled the NetDrive services, Calibre was once again able to import books.

[JSWolf]

Glad you got it working. NetDrive obviously is a poorly written program.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Glad you got it working. NetDrive obviously is a poorly written program.

Amazing its still being updated, if its what I think it is then it was once a component of Novell Netware, maybe MS did something to break it.

BR

[TommyKuehne]

calibre 3.19 [64bit] embedded-python: True is64bit: True
Windows-10-10.0.16299-SP0 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.16299')
Python 2.7.12+
Windows: ('10', '10.0.16299', 'SP0', u'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: de
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\dialogs\choose_library.py", line 70, in choose_loc
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\win_file_dialogs.py", line 238, in choose_dir
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\win_file_dialogs.py", line 206, in run_file_dialog
Exception: File dialog failed (return code 1073741845): Assertion failed: Successful WSASTARTUP not yet performed (..\..\..\..\src\signaler.cpp:194)

calibre, version 3.19.0
FEHLER: Nicht abgefangener Fehler: <b>Exception</b>:File dialog failed (return code 1073741845): Assertion failed: Successful WSASTARTUP not yet performed (..\..\..\..\src\signaler.cpp:194)


calibre 3.19 [64bit] embedded-python: True is64bit: True
Windows-10-10.0.16299-SP0 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.16299')
Python 2.7.12+
Windows: ('10', '10.0.16299', 'SP0', u'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: de
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\actions\add.py", line 424, in add_books
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\win_file_dialogs.py", line 252, in choose_files
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\win_file_dialogs.py", line 206, in run_file_dialog
Exception: File dialog failed (return code 1073741845): Assertion failed: Successful WSASTARTUP not yet performed (..\..\..\..\src\signaler.cpp:194)

[JSWolf]

Tommy, do you use Netdrive? If you do, you will need to dump it as it's very poorly written.

[TommyKuehne]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Tommy, do you use Netdrive? If you do, you will need to dump it as it's very poorly written.

Yes, NetDrive is the Problem. Thank you for the Help!!!!!!!!