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Old 03-20-2011, 03:23 PM   #1
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My wife just got a Kindle 3 for her birthday and I've been using this excellent program to manage her books for it.

One thing I have noticed is that, everytime I launch Calibre, the Column layout reverts to default, all the columns I've hidden reappear and the order I put the columns in has changed. Is this supposed to happen or am I missing a preference setting somewhere.

Thanks for any help I cna get ^_^
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Old 03-20-2011, 03:47 PM   #2
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My wife just got a Kindle 3 for her birthday and I've been using this excellent program to manage her books for it.

One thing I have noticed is that, everytime I launch Calibre, the Column layout reverts to default, all the columns I've hidden reappear and the order I put the columns in has changed. Is this supposed to happen or am I missing a preference setting somewhere.

Thanks for any help I cna get ^_^
It sounds like a Write Rights issue or some program is stomping the saved USER settings (location is OS dependent). What O/S and version?
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Old 03-20-2011, 03:48 PM   #3
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no its not supposed to happen. You likely have a permission problem on the calibre config directory which is preventing calibre from saving the settings.
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Old 03-25-2011, 06:04 AM   #4
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Thanks for your replies guys, I've checked the permissions on the Calibre folder and I have full control.
Also, I've got some backup software running which monitors file changes and backups up anything that's new or changed, but I've disabled that and still have the same issues.

Possibly the file is set to write only, can you let me know which file I should be looking at?

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Thanks for your replies guys, I've checked the permissions on the Calibre folder and I have full control.
Make sure you're looking at the correct folder. Go to Preferences - Miscellaneous and click the giant button labeled Open calibre configuration directory. The directory that opens is the directory you need to examine the write permissions on.

It should NOT be read only.

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Old 03-25-2011, 10:50 AM   #6
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Thanks for the info, I've check that folder and there are no files which are write protected, I also have Full Control Security Permissions for the complete folder and contents.

Columns still revert to default after closing and reopening

Thanks for you continued help though ^_^
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Old 03-25-2011, 01:14 PM   #7
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Run calibre in debug mode that might give you a clue as to what the problem is
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Thanks for the reply, sorry for the delay I've been away for a week.
I started Calibre in Debig mode and got this message

"Starting up...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\library\views.py", line 462, in database_changed
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\library\views.py", line 391, in restore_state
ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack
Started up in 0.56500005722"

Does that point to why my columns revert to default layout?
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Old 04-03-2011, 10:49 AM   #9
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Yes, you have an incorrect tweak for the sort columns at startup. Go to preference->tweaks and click restore defaults and then apply
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That fixed it, thank you very much for your help.

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