keeps dropping out

jwhitt12 · 05-24-2014, 06:51 PM

I imported a bunch of books. They had the author and the title mixed up so I have to edit all the metadata. The problem is that the program now tends to drop out on every other book. I am running with xp pro. This seems to be a new problem as I have been doing this for a long time with no problems at all.

Thoughts?

Thank you..........

theducks · 05-24-2014, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by jwhitt12

I imported a bunch of books. They had the author and the title mixed up so I have to edit all the metadata. The problem is that the program now tends to drop out on every other book. I am running with xp pro. This seems to be a new problem as I have been doing this for a long time with no problems at all.

Thoughts?

Thank you..........

Check the (XP) event viewer. You may have failing hardware, the log may have a clue.

I run Calibre (1.38)/Sigil every day on XP SP3 (P4 w/2G RAM). A Calibre conversion hits this system fairly hard and a weakness will tend to surface under hard use.

PeterT · 05-24-2014, 08:13 PM

Also run calibre in debug mode (Preferences | Restart calibre in debug mode).

kovidgoyal · 05-24-2014, 11:20 PM

http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq....s-occasionally

jwhitt12 · 05-25-2014, 03:12 PM

thanks for the advice. I started using the bulk metadata thing. Was able to swap out my title and authors then I did the batch update metadata and covers. That was not real successful. I then updated the metadata and not the covers and that worked well and then I went back and batched for covers that worked as well. There were some that it could not find the metadata on but I messed with those separately (tweaking along the way) and got a lot of them.

Thanks again!!

05-24-2014, 06:51 PM	#1
jwhitt12 Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: kobo wireless	keeps dropping out I imported a bunch of books. They had the author and the title mixed up so I have to edit all the metadata. The problem is that the program now tends to drop out on every other book. I am running with xp pro. This seems to be a new problem as I have been doing this for a long time with no problems at all. Thoughts? Thank you..........

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05-24-2014, 08:13 PM	#3
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,698 Karma: 79983758 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Libra H2O, Libra Colour	Also run calibre in debug mode (Preferences \| Restart calibre in debug mode).

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kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq....s-occasionally

05-25-2014, 03:12 PM	#5
jwhitt12 Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: kobo wireless	thanks for the advice. I started using the bulk metadata thing. Was able to swap out my title and authors then I did the batch update metadata and covers. That was not real successful. I then updated the metadata and not the covers and that worked well and then I went back and batched for covers that worked as well. There were some that it could not find the metadata on but I messed with those separately (tweaking along the way) and got a lot of them. Thanks again!!