calibre in windows 10 ?

[cybmole]

is anyone trying out calibre + plug ins, tools , general e-book stuff etc in a windows 10 TP setup yet?

I don't see any thread here , & the board search facility in its wisdom says cannot search for 10

The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search: 10

I have installed, removed, re-installed 10 on a test PC but have not added any book related stuff yet. I am wary of using up all my allowance of adobe_IDs. Also the w10 beta store is not properly open for business yet for a kindle app.. in 8.1, I can run PC with a single local account but can then use a microsoft account just for their app store, so I can get free apps. that feature is broken in current version of 10.. I am determined not to have a Microsoft account as my main PC account, but I have an old xbox live email account which works with the 8.1 store.

My other half trashed the 1st install of 10 . - upgrade left a boot menu saying do you want to rollback or continue .she switched on & in her own works " didn't know what any of that meant so went with option 1 ". but' I'd removed the rollback files, so splat...... luckily I had a system image of 7 from before the upgrade was applied.

this time around I have a clean install of 10 on SSD , with the HD disconnected, so rollback just means moving the SATA power cable from one to the other.

[BetterRed]

Calibre works fine for me in Windows 10 - but I don't use it for commercial books and I don't use anything device related - and I'm not using it in anger. Thus far, I'm planning to wait until penultimate month of free upgrade period before upgrading.

BR

[cybmole]

so the underlying QT stuff is probably OK then, which means sigil should also be good to go.
I am waiting for more info on how the "free upgrades" will work, but thinking of moving to SSD also as part of the process - for silence, not speed, I'm not fussed about stuff loading 3 microseconds faster but I do dislike HD background noises. The Sharkoon gadget that suspends a HD in elastic in a spare 5.25 bay is pretty good though but there are possible cooling issues with that & if the elastic breaks it could be bye bye HD

I did get to Adobe via a live chat session a while back - to ask ask how many adobe ID limited activations have I used, how many do I have left & how do I get more.
the answers were "pass", "dunno" ,& "you got me there"

[BetterRed]

@cybmole - Why do you need an Adobe ID to run Windows 10

Yes SSDs sure do make things quieter, had mine for about a year now. When I use my other machine I hear the difference, but speed wise not a lot different, mind you it has a WD VelociRaptor 250 GB system drive and a sata3 mobo.

BR

[cybmole]

on a clean install, I'd need to activate the PC all over again with an adobe ID to test library loans, re-de-drm-ing of old purchases etc.
( i.e. basically to test that ade v1.7 / ade v 2 are still ok )
the "activation" lives in the windows registry somewhere I believe

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by cybmole

so the underlying QT stuff is probably OK then, which means sigil should also be good to go.
I am waiting for more info on how the "free upgrades" will work, but thinking of moving to SSD also as part of the process - for silence, not speed, I'm not fussed about stuff loading 3 microseconds faster but I do dislike HD background noises.

Look into Terabyte Image for Linux. It's a CD-booting imaging program, very similar in operation to the old DOS-versions of Norton Ghost. You can clone your boot partition and then re-image it onto a new SSD. I've been moving programs like this for over 8 years using this program (and I'm still getting free updates... all for $24). From 1998 up to 2007, I've used the DOS-versions of Ghost, version 2003 being the last one, to switch to IFL after I got a computer on which Ghost 2003 wouldn't boot any longer.

Oh, and if you're asking: yes, a program such as IFL is also very useful to create backups of your startup partition. I've saved saved myself *many* hours during during the last 15 years, by just re-imaging computers instead of re-installing them. (Mostly other people's computers: I never need to re-install my own computers since I've been running Windows NT 4 from 1996 and later. I only re-image to an earlier version after trying a bunch of open source software packages, for example.)

Also, you'll notice that an SSD is not just "a few microseconds" faster. If your computer has enough RAM (4GB, for a not-overloaded Windows 7 installation), it positively turns an old computer into a new one.

I would NEVER willingly go back to a computer working from an HDD only. That is just for bulk storage, and installing games. The operating system and all regularly used programs are on an SSD.

And... this is an old(er) computer, which can only use the SSD at a 'limited' speed of around 250 MB/s. If this SSD had been put into a newer computer, it would run at 450 MB/s; and newer computers and SSD's are even faster.

I'm going to build a new computer shortly after Windows 10 is released. I've got an Windows 7 license (Technet), so I'll be able to instantly upgrade it to Windows 10. It will have the fastest or next-to-fastest Intel CPU of that point, 16 GB RAM (with expansion capabilities to 32 GB still open), and the then-current nVidia GTX x70 Ti card. (The successor of the GTX 970 (Ti), possibly called the 1080 or something.)

I expect that computer to blast my current one to kingdom come regarding speed, and given Windows' track record in compatibility (which has been VERY good for me, the last 15 years; everything written for Windows 95/98 still runs fine on Windows 7 x64, with a minor tweak here or there), I expect that everything that runs on Windows 8.x will also run on Windows 10.

Thus, every program I now have runs on Windows 8.x (I know this already, 100% sure), so I expect no, or only minor problems in Windows 10.

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by cybmole

on a clean install, I'd need to activate the PC all over again with an adobe ID to test library loans, re-de-drm-ing of old purchases etc.
( i.e. basically to test that ade v1.7 / ade v 2 are still ok )
the "activation" lives in the windows registry somewhere I believe

Even if ADE 1.7.2 or 2.x are not OK in Windows 10, you could go the crazy route of installing a small Linux installation into a virtual machine, and then run ADE 1.7.2 through Wine. (Yeah... use a virtualized Linux to run an older Windows-program. What's the world coming to?)

[Glorfindel]

I have yet to find a program that runs in W7 yet not 10.

[cybmole]

Originally Posted by Glorfindel

I have yet to find a program that runs in W7 yet not 10.

the guys on the windows 10 forum ( which the windows insider program linked me to) are finding lots, especially games.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/i...tp?tab=Threads


as for the cloning suggestion, thanks but I think a clean install is better if also going to SSD , to ensure all the sector alignment, trim gets stuff gets properly configured.
I was almost up for buying another full win 8 licence, then MS came out withthe "free upgrade 7 to 10 announcement" so that plan seems wasteful now. I shoudl patiently wait...

also it's good anti-clutter discipline to plan what size I can actually manage with, no way am I buying a 2 TB SSD ! 500 Gb should be enough, even after OS & disc management have stolen chunks. I read that I end up with 460-470Gb usable