Calibre crashing all the time

Kaetrin · 07-08-2009, 09:40 PM

Hello,

I have a Sony-700 and have been using Calibre happily for some months now. Recently we reinstalled Windows Vista Ultimate on our PC and this week also got a new pc (ie we now have 2). One has a 32 bit version of Vista, the other a 64 bit version. I have downloaded a fresh version of Calibre for each and it has remembered the library etc but when I go to import new books into Calibre, some books cause the programme to crash. There is no specific error message, the screen just hangs until it says there is a problem and the programme must close.

It doesn't seem that there is any particular type of book that is causing the crashes. Mostly I buy .pdf files or Adobe DE or ePub files and then import them to Calibre and then send them to my Sony. I usually buy from Books on Board and sometimes eHarlequin. The files are okay - I can open them in Adobe DE but I can't seem to get them into Calibre.

Any suggestions?

Sorry if I've given too much/not enough information (if you need more, please let me know what) - this is my first post!

regards
Kaetrin.

kovidgoyal · 07-08-2009, 10:23 PM

There is a bug in calibre 0.5 that can cause it to crash with certain PDF files. Go into the Preferences->Plugins

Then under the metadata reader and Metadata writer plugins disable the plugins for PDF

See if that fixes your crashes

Kaetrin · 07-11-2009, 06:40 AM

Seems to be working. thank you so much for your help!

07-08-2009, 09:40 PM	#1
Kaetrin Connoisseur Posts: 63 Karma: 9402 Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Adelaide, South Australia Device: Kobo Aura H2O	Calibre crashing all the time Hello, I have a Sony-700 and have been using Calibre happily for some months now. Recently we reinstalled Windows Vista Ultimate on our PC and this week also got a new pc (ie we now have 2). One has a 32 bit version of Vista, the other a 64 bit version. I have downloaded a fresh version of Calibre for each and it has remembered the library etc but when I go to import new books into Calibre, some books cause the programme to crash. There is no specific error message, the screen just hangs until it says there is a problem and the programme must close. It doesn't seem that there is any particular type of book that is causing the crashes. Mostly I buy .pdf files or Adobe DE or ePub files and then import them to Calibre and then send them to my Sony. I usually buy from Books on Board and sometimes eHarlequin. The files are okay - I can open them in Adobe DE but I can't seem to get them into Calibre. Any suggestions? Sorry if I've given too much/not enough information (if you need more, please let me know what) - this is my first post! regards Kaetrin.

07-11-2009, 06:40 AM	#3
Kaetrin Connoisseur Posts: 63 Karma: 9402 Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Adelaide, South Australia Device: Kobo Aura H2O	thanks so much Seems to be working. thank you so much for your help!

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07-08-2009, 10:23 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,843 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	There is a bug in calibre 0.5 that can cause it to crash with certain PDF files. Go into the Preferences->Plugins Then under the metadata reader and Metadata writer plugins disable the plugins for PDF See if that fixes your crashes

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