How to recover document images

James Holmes · 03-19-2023, 10:30 PM

I installed Calibre.

With no instruction from me and no notice, Calibre removed all the images from a document and replaced the image with the "Image" or Image No. xx.

Is that normal behavior?

What happens to my book if I delete Calibre. Does it remain as it is?

I need to use the document. Can anyone tell me how to restore my images?

DNSB · 03-20-2023, 01:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by James Holmes

I installed Calibre.

With no instruction from me and no notice, Calibre removed all the images from a document and replaced the image with the "Image" or Image No. xx.

Is that normal behavior?

What happens to my book if I delete Calibre. Does it remain as it is?

I need to use the document. Can anyone tell me how to restore my images?

Quote:

Originally Posted by James Holmes

I installed Calibre. I did nothing. All the images in a critical Word file were replaced with an image number. It did it to every file on the computer, including my backup file for protection.

Please tell me how to reverse this.

Is there any actual support for Calibre?

If I understand what you wrote in two rather similar messages, you installed calibre. You did not open your Word document with calibre nor did you attempt to convert the Word document to a different format using calibre. This from from your "I did nothing" wordage.

You opened your critical Word document with Word and the images were gone. You also stated that the images were gone from all your other Word files. What format were the images? Which version of Word are you using? What OS is your computer running?

If you are running Windows, open a command prompt and try removing calibre's file type associations using:

Code:

calibre-debug --default-programs=unregister

They can be restored using:

Code:

calibre-debug --default-programs=register

This is likely to require opening a administrator command prompt.

As for calibre support, most calibre support is what you see freely offered in the calibre forum.

James Holmes · 03-21-2023, 07:32 PM

Thank you for your thoughtful information.
Here is more detail. The file was a Libre Office Write document. I installed Calibre.
I did not tell it to do anything.
Now, in every word-processing document, the image has been replaced by A tiny icon that looks like blue mountains, and in red, "Image8", for example. I tried to find a Calibre folder with the images. I could not. I opened a file with a name like my original file and it appeared with different page formatting, but by moving through it I could find and save the images. When I delete the image in my file or try to replace them the image does not appear, but only the Calibre file name, for example, "Image(a numeral)
I uninstalled Calibre. Nothing changed. I found on the web an original of the first image in the file and saved it in the same directory with the images I had recovered from Calibre. When the old image placeholder..."Image8" is deleted and the new one is pasted it does not pase the new copy of the image, but still shows the little thumbnailand "Image8", in red.
I have the Calibre install program. It appears that C. may have done something to my original file.
Can I install C. again and use it to fix this?

theducks · 03-21-2023, 08:22 PM

Calibre does not change the source in a From > To conversion
OTOH If you process (convert ) to the same type, it does.
Depending on your settings, you may have an original_xyz in the formats area of the MDE

Also Calibre remembers the settings used for each conversion (you can adjust them at the conversion start). Note the button at te bottom: That grab the latest Preferences (your default)

James Holmes · 03-21-2023, 09:02 PM

Thank you for your help.
I do not understand. I did not open Calibre. I installed it only. I did not knowingly or intentionally open a file or give any command.

James Holmes · 03-21-2023, 09:26 PM

The OS is Windows 10, up to date.

BetterRed · 03-21-2023, 09:53 PM

If you didn't even start calibre it wouldn't have done anything to any of your files. Unlike some music and video organisers calibre does NOT scan your system looking for data it can process….

At the end of the install did it pop up a screen that looked like this?

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If so what did you do?

BR

James Holmes · 03-22-2023, 12:53 PM

I don't know if I related to a screen like that.
I uninstalled Calibre.
I uninstall my word processing software LibreOffice Write to remove any changes that Calibre has made, and reinstall it.

I create a new word processing file using Write.

I go to a web site and copy an image.

Paste the image into the word processor. In place of the image is a small thumbmnail that looks like blue mountains and the text "Image8", or a different number in red.

This means to me that Calibre has added some function to the word processor, or there is still some component of Caibre on my machine.
I opened command prompt, c:\Windows and pasted in the recommended command.
"calibre-debug --default-programs=unregister". The space before the two hyphens before "default" is as I received the command. Systemy returns that it is not a command.

Please help.

James Holmes · 03-22-2023, 01:03 PM

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stutz · 03-22-2023, 01:13 PM

Calibre didn't modify any LibreOffice setting, nor did it modify any file that you didn't import into its library. It seems to me that this problem is unrelated to Calibre and only coincidently appeared at that moment. May I suggest that you ask for help on the LibreOffice support forum? (https://ask.libreoffice.org/)

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I opened command prompt, c:\Windows and pasted in the recommended command.
"calibre-debug --default-programs=unregister". The space before the two hyphens before "default" is as I received the command. Systemy returns that it is not a command.

Since you already uninstalled calibre, it is normal that this command does nothing.

James Holmes · 03-22-2023, 01:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stutz

Calibre didn't modify any LibreOffice setting, nor did it modify any file that you didn't import into its library. It seems to me that this problem is unrelated to Calibre and only coincidently appeared at that moment. May I suggest that you ask for help on the LibreOffice support forum? (https://ask.libreoffice.org/)

Since you already uninstalled calibre, it is normal that this command does nothing.

I do not believe the replacement of images with an image placeholder can possibly be caused by anything but Calibre. I did open Calibre after I installed it. I must have unintentionally caused it to do what it did. The word processor cannot generate an image to replace a pasted image.
Please help me get rid of this. If not, I am going to have to format my C drive.

theducks · 03-22-2023, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by James Holmes

Is it intentional to put ads inside a post?

IN YOUR part of the post? (like right in here). No. Something is wrong with your system / internet path.

MR does have ads in the sidebar (I don't see them after I log in, but I am not a basic user)

theducks · 03-22-2023, 01:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by James Holmes

I do not believe the replacement of images with an image placeholder can possibly be caused by anything but Calibre. I did open Calibre after I installed it. I must have unintentionally caused it to do what it did. The word processor cannot generate an image to replace a pasted image.
Please help me get rid of this. If not, I am going to have to format my C drive.

Something is seriously NOT CALIBRE.
FWIW in the 12 years I have been using Calibre, I have never heard of anything like you describe. Nothing showing ✔ Distorted ✔ Off screen ✔ Missing ✔

image8 makes me suspect you are seeing the alt="image8" of the img tag; which would be used when graphics (mode) is not supported (properly)

Martinoptic · 03-23-2023, 06:29 AM

Maybe somehow your image files are not recognised by your system. Have you tried using a restore point from the time before you installed calibre and reinstalled LO. It maybe less stressful than reformatting c: and having to reinstall everything. One of my windows updates did this once and I had to revert and then update again. Good luck.

Edit: calibre will not have caused this unless you got it from somewhere other than the calibre site.

Quoth · 03-23-2023, 06:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by James Holmes

I do not believe the replacement of images with an image placeholder can possibly be caused by anything but Calibre. I did open Calibre after I installed it. I must have unintentionally caused it to do what it did. The word processor cannot generate an image to replace a pasted image.
Please help me get rid of this. If not, I am going to have to format my C drive.

If you used linked images and changed where they are stored you will see placeholders in Word, or any other program with images in it.

This is most unlikely to be caused by Calibre.

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The word processor cannot generate an image to replace a pasted image.

It always will if it's a linked image rather than an embedded copy and source path is changed or source renamed or removed.

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I am going to have to format my C drive.

Don't do that. That rarely is a solution.

Edit:
If you used relative paths for linked images in MS Word and change the document location you'll get placeholders as the path will be wrong.

Always embed (copy & paste or be careful with Insert From File options) images.

03-19-2023, 10:30 PM	#1
James Holmes Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2023 Device: none	How to recover document images I installed Calibre. With no instruction from me and no notice, Calibre removed all the images from a document and replaced the image with the "Image" or Image No. xx. Is that normal behavior? What happens to my book if I delete Calibre. Does it remain as it is? I need to use the document. Can anyone tell me how to restore my images?

03-21-2023, 09:02 PM	#5
James Holmes Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2023 Device: none	Thank you for your help. I do not understand. I did not open Calibre. I installed it only. I did not knowingly or intentionally open a file or give any command. Last edited by James Holmes; 03-21-2023 at 09:03 PM. Reason: correct grammar

03-21-2023, 09:53 PM	#7
BetterRed null operator Posts: 19,399 Karma: 23268298 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	If you didn't even start calibre it wouldn't have done anything to any of your files. Unlike some music and video organisers calibre does NOT scan your system looking for data it can process…. At the end of the install did it pop up a screen that looked like this? If so what did you do? BR

03-23-2023, 06:29 AM	#14
Martinoptic Bibliolater Posts: 1,770 Karma: 977548 Join Date: Dec 2021 Location: England Device: none	Maybe somehow your image files are not recognised by your system. Have you tried using a restore point from the time before you installed calibre and reinstalled LO. It maybe less stressful than reformatting c: and having to reinstall everything. One of my windows updates did this once and I had to revert and then update again. Good luck. Edit: calibre will not have caused this unless you got it from somewhere other than the calibre site. Last edited by Martinoptic; 03-23-2023 at 06:32 AM.

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03-21-2023, 07:32 PM	#3
James Holmes Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2023 Device: none	Thank you for your thoughtful information. Here is more detail. The file was a Libre Office Write document. I installed Calibre. I did not tell it to do anything. Now, in every word-processing document, the image has been replaced by A tiny icon that looks like blue mountains, and in red, "Image8", for example. I tried to find a Calibre folder with the images. I could not. I opened a file with a name like my original file and it appeared with different page formatting, but by moving through it I could find and save the images. When I delete the image in my file or try to replace them the image does not appear, but only the Calibre file name, for example, "Image(a numeral) I uninstalled Calibre. Nothing changed. I found on the web an original of the first image in the file and saved it in the same directory with the images I had recovered from Calibre. When the old image placeholder..."Image8" is deleted and the new one is pasted it does not pase the new copy of the image, but still shows the little thumbnailand "Image8", in red. I have the Calibre install program. It appears that C. may have done something to my original file. Can I install C. again and use it to fix this?

03-21-2023, 08:22 PM	#4
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 28,656 Karma: 50383856 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Calibre does not change the source in a From > To conversion OTOH If you process (convert ) to the same type, it does. Depending on your settings, you may have an original_xyz in the formats area of the MDE Also Calibre remembers the settings used for each conversion (you can adjust them at the conversion start). Note the button at te bottom: That grab the latest Preferences (your default)

03-21-2023, 09:26 PM	#6
James Holmes Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2023 Device: none	The OS is Windows 10, up to date.

03-22-2023, 12:53 PM	#8
James Holmes Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2023 Device: none	I don't know if I related to a screen like that. I uninstalled Calibre. I uninstall my word processing software LibreOffice Write to remove any changes that Calibre has made, and reinstall it. I create a new word processing file using Write. I go to a web site and copy an image. Paste the image into the word processor. In place of the image is a small thumbmnail that looks like blue mountains and the text "Image8", or a different number in red. This means to me that Calibre has added some function to the word processor, or there is still some component of Caibre on my machine. I opened command prompt, c:\Windows and pasted in the recommended command. "calibre-debug --default-programs=unregister". The space before the two hyphens before "default" is as I received the command. Systemy returns that it is not a command. Please help.

03-22-2023, 01:03 PM	#9
James Holmes Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2023 Device: none	Is it intentional to put ads inside a post?

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