Calibre 3.37 not opening

[amanda138a]

I have downloaded calibre 3.37 I followed the installing instructions, now when I try to open it it it asks me to "choose a location for your new calibre library" I do this, then.... nothing it does not open. Can anyone help me please?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by amanda138a

I have downloaded calibre 3.37 I followed the installing instructions, now when I try to open it it it asks me to "choose a location for your new calibre library" I do this, then.... nothing it does not open. Can anyone help me please?

What OS?
Do you have (OS) permissions tocreate a folder at the location you chose?

[amanda138a]

Originally Posted by theducks

What OS?
Do you have (OS) permissions tocreate a folder at the location you chose?

yes I do (should have said it's windows 10 64bit,) I was thinking of trying to use an older version of calibre?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by amanda138a

yes I do (should have said it's windows 10 64bit,) I was thinking of trying to use an older version of calibre?

Is this your first install of Calibre ( you have no previous Library)?
If No: have you ever had multiple monitors?

What does the Task Manager show for Calibre and its WORKERs?
Try disabling your antivirus for the test, some block the worker tasks and those will need to be whitelisted. (if it runs with A/V disabled)

If Yes: Calibre may be hanging trying to create its preferences folder and settings. Again, the A/V may need Calibre.exe whitelisted

[amanda138a]

There was calibre on this pc before but i removed it as I no longer required it... then I spilt coffee on my laptop this morning so I have to come back to this one! I also have the backup library from the broken laptop on this one as I had it on my back-up hard drive

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by amanda138a

I have downloaded calibre 3.37 I followed the installing instructions, now when I try to open it it it asks me to "choose a location for your new calibre library" I do this, then.... nothing it does not open. Can anyone help me please?

What location do you choose?

And did you try the default? IIRC it's now something like

C:\Users\<username>\Appdata\Roaming\Calibre_Library

BR

[amanda138a]

tried all of the above to no success, I followed the IIRC got to roaming there was no Calibre_library only calibre, and i turned off AVG

[amanda138a]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

What location do you choose?

And did you try the default? IIRC it's now something like

C:\Users\<username>\Appdata\Roaming\Calibre

BR

Ok so I had inspiration and deleted the info that was sitting for calibre under this address and tried installing again, I got a breakthrough with the programme asking me what device etc, it asked where i would like my library and offered me an empty file

C:\Users\<username>\Calibre Library

when i try and open calibre it gets as far as "initialising user interface" on the starting up interface and then it hangs

any ideas?

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by amanda138a

tried all of the above to no success, I followed the IIRC got to roaming there was no Calibre_library only calibre, and i turned off AVG

Originally Posted by amanda138a

Ok so I had inspiration and deleted the info that was sitting for calibre under this address and tried installing again,

Aaaah - you deleted the config folder - my bad I should have checked the default library location explicitly But calibre would have just created a fresh config folder when it found there wasn't one.

See ==>> calibre is not starting on Windows?

Post the debug output here.

I suspect something is getting in calibre's way - possibly a security related something, but I see you disabled AVG already.

See ==>> calibre freezes/crashes occasionally?

BR

[Marzi]

Hi everyone,

I have the same problem but I don't get any errors or msgs. It just won't start.

I had Calibre on my system before and had no issue with it but after the recent update it simply doesn't open anymore.

I don't have any antivirus to block it either, have tried installing-uninstalling both 32 and 64 versions as well but still nothing.

I also checked in Task Manager to see if it's running in the background or not but didn't find anything .

I've got Windows 8.1.

[amanda138a]

ok so I have a 2 prong answer for you!

1) I followed the directions, I deleted everything, went offline turned off AVG etc, and still it failed so I took the screenshots as the FAQ suggested


It still failed, so having read through the FAQ one of the things I noticed was it suggested trying the windows and not the Windows 64 bit version, and what do you know!! It is working!!

Interested to know if any of you geniuses can tell me WHY the 64 bit version failed?

Thanks to all for the help, so very much appreciated!


Incidently for anyone interested....
This is the second time I have spilt coffee on my laptop, the first time it happened (Feb last year!) I bought this cheap acer laptop from Tesco to use as I thought my expensive Dell laptop was toast!! However about a couple of weeks after the spill (And coffee was running through the laptop) for some reason I turned it on and it was fine!! I lost no data, I was really lucky. So I deleted all my stuff as my teenage daughter inherited the Acer ,

This time I spilt LESS coffee. did the same again turned it off right away, dried the spill. so I am hoping that it will come alright again if I leave it be.

If it doesn't come back on again is it worth taking it to a shop to see if it can be fixed?
And yes I know with my history I should avoid having coffee around the laptop, but I am disabled and sometimes stuff happens, there is not much I can do about it.

[amanda138a]

Originally Posted by Marzi

Hi everyone,

I have the same problem but I don't get any errors or msgs. It just won't start.

I had Calibre on my system before and had no issue with it but after the recent update it simply doesn't open anymore.

I don't have any antivirus to block it either, have tried installing-uninstalling both 32 and 64 versions as well but still nothing.

I also checked in Task Manager to see if it's running in the background or not but didn't find anything .

I've got Windows 8.1.

Marzi as per my reply just now, if you were using the 64 bit version try using the windows version, it has worked for me!

[theducks]

Anything with citric acid is deadly to circuit boards. You have minutes to flush with lots of clear water, and even the, it is iffy. Many sodas have Citric acid. as well as tea with lemon.

Coffee in the power brick is also a bad thing (older bricks were vented). Lost the backlight circuit. At least he HD survived to be placed in a USB caddy for data recovery

[Marzi]

Originally Posted by amanda138a

Marzi as per my reply just now, if you were using the 64 bit version try using the windows version, it has worked for me!

Hey Amanda,

Tried that already, doesn't work.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by amanda138a

ok so I have a 2 prong answer for you!

1) I followed the directions, I deleted everything, went offline turned off AVG etc, and still it failed so I took the screenshots as the FAQ suggested


It still failed, so having read through the FAQ one of the things I noticed was it suggested trying the windows and not the Windows 64 bit version, and what do you know!! It is working!!

Interested to know if any of you geniuses can tell me WHY the 64 bit version failed?

If we knew that we could probably implement an internal workaround My impression is that it happens more often in Win 7 than Win 10 - but it has been very occasional. As the FAQ says its probably due to some security issue, but what that is we've never discovered.

Originally Posted by amanda138a

Incidently for anyone interested....
This is the second time I have spilt coffee on my laptop, the first time it happened (Feb last year!) I bought this cheap acer laptop from Tesco to use as I thought my expensive Dell laptop was toast!! However about a couple of weeks after the spill (And coffee was running through the laptop) for some reason I turned it on and it was fine!! I lost no data, I was really lucky. So I deleted all my stuff as my teenage daughter inherited the Acer ,

This time I spilt LESS coffee. did the same again turned it off right away, dried the spill. so I am hoping that it will come alright again if I leave it be.

If it doesn't come back on again is it worth taking it to a shop to see if it can be fixed?

Can't hurt - get a quote for taking a look and giving you an 'is it fixable' answer and a 'how much to fix' quote.

If it's not fixable or the cost to fix is over the top - get a quote to salvage the memory, disk drives etc, they might come in handy - e.g. you could put the disk in USB caddy and use it as a backup drive.

I probably wouldn't take it back to Tesco though, what would a Hackney Market tea seller know about fixing laptops, or Sainsbury's for similar reasons

Originally Posted by amanda138a

And yes I know with my history I should avoid having coffee around the laptop, but I am disabled and sometimes stuff happens, there is not much I can do about it.

I find something like this helps, hard to knock over because it's bottom heavy :



BR