Calibre 2.48.0 and 2.49.0 "unsafe"

[theducks]

Originally Posted by PeterT

I really wish you would stop telling people to change O/S. It's there choice, possibly involving hardware upgrades. Just because YOU are happy making the switch does not make it so for all users.

If the user had wanted to do a Vista OS upgrade, they have had quite a few chances.

I do recommend tat they do keep up with the security patches on any OS and it never hurts to review what the other one do, just maybe...

[JSWolf]

I had a laptop that came with Vista. While it worked, I didn't like Vista. I was so happy to replace it with Windows 7. That laptop has since been retired.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I had a laptop that came with Vista. While it worked, I didn't like Vista. I was so happy to replace it with Windows 7. That laptop has since been retired.

That is a pointless statement.

This laptop came with Windows XP.
While it worked, I didn't like XP (although I liked it better than Vista or Win7/8/8.1/10).
I was so happy to replace it with Arch Linux.

See how easy it is to have an arbitrary opinion?




And you are not being helpful right now to anyone, much less the OP. So, why are you engaging in unhelpful proselytization of an inferior operating system?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I had a laptop that came with Vista. While it worked, I didn't like Vista. I was so happy to replace it with Windows 7. That laptop has since been retired.

That is not the point we are trying to make here.

I don't disagree with your OPINION about wanting Vista (or your choice of solution).

Changing an OS is a matter of taste. Calibre is supposed to run on Vista, so the incessant changeto X is what we are grumbling about.

[JSWolf]

I know Calibre is meant to run on Vista. But Vista can sometimes run rather poorly.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I know Calibre is meant to run on Vista. But Vista can sometimes run rather poorly.

I find that Windows in general can run rather poorly. What is your point?
Stop proselytizing lousy operating systems, and I will stop proselytizing in turn...

[Umoxuy]

I had the same problem as the OP

calibre, version 2.50.0
ERROR: Startup error: There was an error during calibre startup. Parts of calibre may not function. Click Show details to learn more.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\main.py", line 276, in initialize_db_stage2
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\main.py", line 216, in start_gui
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\ui.py", line 248, in initialize
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 887, in init_device_mixin
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 159, in __init__
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\scanner.py", line 249, in __init__
File "site.py", line 50, in load_module
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\winusb.py", line 399, in <module>
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\winusb.py", line 351, in cwrap
AttributeError: function 'CM_Request_Device_EjectW' not found

After clicking OK to the above, calibre.exe (main program) is visible in the process list, but the UI (calibre-parallel.exe) does not start.

Killing calibre.exe then installing Calibre 2.50.1 64-bit straight over the existing installation fixed the problem.

I am using 64-bit Calibre on Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit.

[JSWolf]

Someone really should change the topic. Those versions of Calibre are not unsafe. I've used them both with no problem at all.