impossible to create catalog in present Calibre version

Jacques Q. · 01-15-2022, 05:10 PM

Hello.
Having seen that DeDRM now works with Calibre 5.0 and higher, I recently updated Calibre from 4.23 (that I had been using for well over a year) to the latest version.
I wanted to create a catalog, as I always do when I add some new e-books.
First I notice that Calibre is now far less tolerant than it used to be to any kind of mistake (which I personally would not call an improvement...) : in Calibre 4 it used to actually produce the catalog but warn me there were "some mistakes". Now it just won't do anything as long as there is even one mistake left (usually some REALLY big stuff like indexing "Paul Vidal de La Blache" as "Vidal de la Blache, Paul" without the capital L, wow, THAT'S really serious...). OK, I corrected the about 50 mistakes (not too bad for slightly under 27000 e-books, I guess).
I also notice that the process is faster than it used to be (around 2'30" instead of slightly above 3' on the previous version), but maybe it is because it fails before the end.
Because indeed then it STILL won't create a catalog, and I can't understand why. Maybe (just maybe) it is because apparently (from the log I get in the end) the software seems to think it is trying to create a catalog for a Kindle Paperwhite 3. Now I do own one (+ several other readers), but I hardly ever plug them to the computer, and I've always created the catalogs on the computer and only then transferred them to whatever reader I wanted them on. [EDIT : problem unchanged when I change exit settings to "default settings".]
Also I can't understand why the log says "Catalog_EPUB_MOBI" while my e-books also include many PDFs and a few books in other formats.
If someone can help me pinpointing the mistake and getting rid of it I would very much appreciate it. Else I would just have to revert to an older version of Calibre but I would somehow consider it a failure !
Here is the detailed log I get at the end (please note that it ends with "catalog creation complete", yet it says the operation failed, and I don't get any catalog at all...) :

Spoiler:

THANKS A LOT to anyone who'll take the time to sort this out for a computer-only-slightly-literate reader...

kovidgoyal · 01-15-2022, 05:26 PM

According to that log your catalog is being created fine. Most likely you have an antivirus interfering with calibre and causing the worker process to crash. Run windows in safe mode to confirm.

Jacques Q. · 01-15-2022, 05:49 PM

Hello.
Thanks for your very quick answer.
I did run Windows in safe mode as advised, tried to create catalog, same result - here is the log (looks pretty much identical to me, except process was much slower) :

Spoiler:

kovidgoyal · 01-15-2022, 06:04 PM

And do you have add to library checked in the catalog creation box?

Jacques Q. · 01-15-2022, 06:07 PM

Hello again.
Yes, I do have "add to library".
So, since this seems to be quite full of mystery, I cowardly deleted the up-to-date version of Calibre and went back to 4.23, and when I created a catalog everything ran fine just as it used to (with the added advantage that having used the newer version inbetween forced me to correct all slight remaining mistakes, so no more warning about mistakes !).
So now just one additional question, since Mr. Goyal is so very kind to answer : should I also delete the new version of DeDRM that I installed with Calibre 5 and go back to the version I used to have with Calibre 4.23, or will the new version of DeDRM work just as well with 4.23 ?
Thanks a lot in advance.

01-15-2022, 05:10 PM	#1
Jacques Q. Connoisseur Posts: 92 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2020 Location: Paris Device: quite a few Kindles...	impossible to create catalog in present Calibre version Hello. Having seen that DeDRM now works with Calibre 5.0 and higher, I recently updated Calibre from 4.23 (that I had been using for well over a year) to the latest version. I wanted to create a catalog, as I always do when I add some new e-books. First I notice that Calibre is now far less tolerant than it used to be to any kind of mistake (which I personally would not call an improvement...) : in Calibre 4 it used to actually produce the catalog but warn me there were "some mistakes". Now it just won't do anything as long as there is even one mistake left (usually some REALLY big stuff like indexing "Paul Vidal de La Blache" as "Vidal de la Blache, Paul" without the capital L, wow, THAT'S really serious...). OK, I corrected the about 50 mistakes (not too bad for slightly under 27000 e-books, I guess). I also notice that the process is faster than it used to be (around 2'30" instead of slightly above 3' on the previous version), but maybe it is because it fails before the end. Because indeed then it STILL won't create a catalog, and I can't understand why. Maybe (just maybe) it is because apparently (from the log I get in the end) the software seems to think it is trying to create a catalog for a Kindle Paperwhite 3. Now I do own one (+ several other readers), but I hardly ever plug them to the computer, and I've always created the catalogs on the computer and only then transferred them to whatever reader I wanted them on. [EDIT : problem unchanged when I change exit settings to "default settings".] Also I can't understand why the log says "Catalog_EPUB_MOBI" while my e-books also include many PDFs and a few books in other formats. If someone can help me pinpointing the mistake and getting rid of it I would very much appreciate it. Else I would just have to revert to an older version of Calibre but I would somehow consider it a failure ! Here is the detailed log I get at the end (please note that it ends with "catalog creation complete", yet it says the operation failed, and I don't get any catalog at all...) : Spoiler: "Générer le catalogue Sections: Authors, Titles Catalog_EPUB_MOBI('Bibliothèque calibre'): Generating epub for kindle_pw3 in GUI environment, locale: 'French' connected_device: 'None' book count: 26674 opts: author_clip: 60 catalog_title: 'A à Z - Auteurs / Titres' connected_kindle: False creator: 'samedi, janvier 15, 2022' cross_reference_authors: True description_clip: 100 exclude_genre: '\\[.+\\]\|^\\+$' exclusion_rules: () fmt: 'epub' genre_source_field: 'Étiquettes' header_note_source_field: '' merge_comments_rule: '::True' output_profile: 'kindle_pw3' prefix_rules: () search_text: None sort_by: None sort_descriptions_by_author: True sync: False thumb_width: '1.00' use_existing_cover: False Begin catalog source generation (0:00:00) Custom fields: #formats 'Formats' composite Thumbnails: DPI = 300; thumbnail dimensions: 300 x 399 Tri des titres (0:00:39) Tri de la base de données (0:00:39) Auteurs HTML (0:00:39) Titres HTML (0:00:48) Génération de l'OPF (0:00:58) En-tête NCX (0:00:58) NCX pour les Auteurs (0:00:58) NCX pour les Titres (0:00:58) Sauvegarde du NCX (0:00:58) Completed catalog source generation (0:00:58) replacing catalog cover Conversion options changed from defaults: cover: 'C:\\Users\\SUPERV~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibr e_3egf2o_5\\fgtv181m.jpg' output_profile: 'kindle_pw3' book_producer: 'kindle_pw3' remove_fake_margins: False InputFormatPlugin: HTML Input running on C:\Users\SUPERV~1\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_3egf2 o_5\31qlmrw0_epub_mobi_catalog\Catalog.opf Parsing all content... Merging user specified metadata... Detecting structure... Flattening CSS and remapping font sizes... Source base font size is 12.00000pt Cleaning up manifest... Trimming unused files from manifest... Creating EPUB Output... Splitting markup on page breaks and flow limits, if any... Looking for large trees in content/ByAlphaAuthor.html... Found large tree #0 Found large tree #1 Found large tree #2 Found large tree #3 Found large tree #11 Found large tree #12 Found large tree #18 Split into 37 parts Looking for large trees in content/ByAlphaTitle.html... Found large tree #0 Found large tree #3 Found large tree #4 Found large tree #5 Found large tree #6 Found large tree #7 Found large tree #8 Found large tree #10 Found large tree #15 Found large tree #20 Found large tree #22 Found large tree #23 Found large tree #24 Split into 50 parts EPUB output written to C:\Users\SUPERV~1\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_3egf2 o_5\gehrxap5_catalog_out.epub Catalog creation complete (0:02:27)" THANKS A LOT to anyone who'll take the time to sort this out for a computer-only-slightly-literate reader... Last edited by theducks; 01-15-2022 at 06:31 PM. Reason: spoilered

01-15-2022, 05:49 PM	#3
Jacques Q. Connoisseur Posts: 92 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2020 Location: Paris Device: quite a few Kindles...	Hello. Thanks for your very quick answer. I did run Windows in safe mode as advised, tried to create catalog, same result - here is the log (looks pretty much identical to me, except process was much slower) : Spoiler: "Générer le catalogue Sections: Authors, Titles Catalog_EPUB_MOBI('Bibliothèque calibre'): Generating epub for default in GUI environment, locale: 'French' connected_device: 'None' book count: 26674 opts: author_clip: 100 catalog_title: 'A à Z - Auteurs / Titres' connected_kindle: False creator: 'samedi, janvier 15, 2022' cross_reference_authors: True description_clip: 380 exclude_genre: '\\[.+\\]\|^\\+$' exclusion_rules: () fmt: 'epub' genre_source_field: 'Étiquettes' header_note_source_field: '' merge_comments_rule: '::True' output_profile: 'default' prefix_rules: () search_text: None sort_by: None sort_descriptions_by_author: True sync: False thumb_width: '1.00' use_existing_cover: False Begin catalog source generation (0:00:00) Custom fields: #formats 'Formats' composite Thumbnails: DPI = 100; thumbnail dimensions: 100 x 133 Tri des titres (0:01:25) Tri de la base de données (0:01:25) Auteurs HTML (0:01:26) Titres HTML (0:01:42) Génération de l'OPF (0:02:01) En-tête NCX (0:02:01) NCX pour les Auteurs (0:02:01) NCX pour les Titres (0:02:01) Sauvegarde du NCX (0:02:02) Completed catalog source generation (0:02:02) replacing catalog cover Conversion options changed from defaults: cover: 'C:\\Users\\SUPERV~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibr e_xf1bc8_v\\thigx7dm.jpg' remove_fake_margins: False InputFormatPlugin: HTML Input running on C:\Users\SUPERV~1\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_xf1bc 8_v\98mdigwr_epub_mobi_catalog\Catalog.opf Parsing all content... Merging user specified metadata... Detecting structure... Flattening CSS and remapping font sizes... Source base font size is 12.00000pt Cleaning up manifest... Trimming unused files from manifest... Creating EPUB Output... Splitting markup on page breaks and flow limits, if any... Looking for large trees in content/ByAlphaTitle.html... Found large tree #0 Found large tree #3 Found large tree #4 Found large tree #5 Found large tree #6 Found large tree #7 Found large tree #8 Found large tree #10 Found large tree #15 Found large tree #20 Found large tree #22 Found large tree #23 Found large tree #24 Split into 50 parts Looking for large trees in content/ByAlphaAuthor.html... Found large tree #0 Found large tree #1 Found large tree #2 Found large tree #3 Found large tree #11 Found large tree #12 Found large tree #18 Split into 37 parts EPUB output written to C:\Users\SUPERV~1\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_xf1bc 8_v\4t6b_cx8_catalog_out.epub Catalog creation complete (0:04:54)" Last edited by theducks; 01-15-2022 at 06:32 PM. Reason: spoilered

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Create a library catalog	valfolli	Introduce Yourself	2	11-30-2021 05:14 PM
How to create catalog with calibre	Ppaa	Library Management	4	04-24-2016 03:58 PM
Time to create a catalog in Calibre?	crich70	Calibre	3	03-20-2013 09:11 AM
Create Catalog Error	tibia	Library Management	4	06-20-2011 06:24 AM
Thank you developers for a nice Christmas present - Version 0.7.35	kacir	Calibre	56	01-02-2011 08:36 AM

01-15-2022, 05:26 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,844 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	According to that log your catalog is being created fine. Most likely you have an antivirus interfering with calibre and causing the worker process to crash. Run windows in safe mode to confirm.

01-15-2022, 06:04 PM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,844 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	And do you have add to library checked in the catalog creation box?

01-15-2022, 06:07 PM	#5
Jacques Q. Connoisseur Posts: 92 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2020 Location: Paris Device: quite a few Kindles...	Hello again. Yes, I do have "add to library". So, since this seems to be quite full of mystery, I cowardly deleted the up-to-date version of Calibre and went back to 4.23, and when I created a catalog everything ran fine just as it used to (with the added advantage that having used the newer version inbetween forced me to correct all slight remaining mistakes, so no more warning about mistakes !). So now just one additional question, since Mr. Goyal is so very kind to answer : should I also delete the new version of DeDRM that I installed with Calibre 5 and go back to the version I used to have with Calibre 4.23, or will the new version of DeDRM work just as well with 4.23 ? Thanks a lot in advance.