HELP! Have lost ability to read epubs, not only with Calibre's viewer, but with Adobe - Page 4

kovidgoyal · Today, 11:16 AM

At this point I suggest you do a windows clean re-install thats sometimes the easiest way to fix such issues.

DNSB · Today, 12:57 PM

I think you may want to do a clean reinstall of Windows since you are having so many errors. Easiest way is to use Recovery in the Settings app.

lburg801 · Today, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by DNSB

I think you may want to do a clean reinstall of Windows since you are having so many errors. Easiest way is to use Recovery in the Settings app.

I actually started this with a clean install. The problems were there from the beginning. Maddening. Now I'm working with my old ThinkPad X250 starting from a clean install of Win10Pro. So far, ADE4.5 will not convert ascm files to epub nor will an older ADE version (3.0).

The history of my problems began on the Thinkpad that had been upgraded from Win7 to Win10. All programs worked for a couple of years after the upgrade to Win10. I think an automatic update of Win10 started the problem. I just did a clean install of Win10Pro on the laptop and Calibre will open generic epubs with its Viewer just fine.

I'm stuck with just getting audiobooks from the library until they come up with a fix for the Adobe not working in Win10Pro and Win11Pro. Since Adobe has abandoned this program, the fix, if there ever is one, will have to come from Microsoft.

JSWolf · Today, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by lburg801

Woo-hoo! That worked!

Now what do I do? Anyway to have it discover my existing libraries in Calibre?

And what does that tell those of you who understand how all this works?

What about DeDRM. Is that possible? My head has been spinning through this whole process. Before the C19 epidemic I was making patreon donations to Kovid Goyal. I guess it's time I stepped up again.

And someone needs to let Adobe know that they need to make changes as that is the public library's default app for epubs.

Copy the existing settings for calibre into the settings directory for the portable version.

The settings you want to copy are in C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Roaming\calibre

The XXXX is the directory for your computer's profile.

Copy the contents of the calibre directory to the settings directory of your portable version. That will copy off of your settings and plugins and you'll see your libraries. I've done that before when using a portable version.

theducks · Today, 03:25 PM

If any non-calibre app is also having these issues,,

your computer has issues that need to be solved. Calibre is just another victim.

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kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 44,302 Karma: 23661992 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	At this point I suggest you do a windows clean re-install thats sometimes the easiest way to fix such issues.

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theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 30,328 Karma: 58000000 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	If any non-calibre app is also having these issues,, your computer has issues that need to be solved. Calibre is just another victim.