calibre

Cannot chose file to get the books from

Bug #2043273 reported by Amaia Goni
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Bug Description

When trying to add a book to Calibre using the Add a Book button, it fails to open the location where the books are stored, and then this appears:

calibre, version 4.23.0
ERROR: Excepción no considerada: <b>Exception</b>:File dialog failed (return code -1073741819):

calibre 4.23 [64bit] embedded-python: True is64bit: True
Windows-10-10.0.22621-SP0 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.22621')
Python 2.7.16+
Windows: ('10', '10.0.22621', 'SP0', u'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: es
Successfully initialized third party plugins: DeDRM (6, 3, 4)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\preferences\adding.py", line 93, in choose_aa_path
  File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\win_file_dialogs.py", line 240, in choose_dir
  File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\win_file_dialogs.py", line 208, in run_file_dialog
Exception: File dialog failed (return code -1073741819):

If I try to establish the route at Preferences, it gives the same error.

Calibre version: 4.23 [64 bit]
Operating system: Windows 11

Tags: file import
Revision history for this message
Kovid Goyal (kovid) wrote :

Something on your computer, most likely the anti-virus, is blocking the calibre
helper process for file dialogs (calibre-file-dialog.exe). Disable the
antivirus or add an exception for calibre-file-dialog.exe and you should be
fine. Alternatively, you can tell calibre to not use native file dialogs, which
avoids the helper process, by setting the CALIBRE_NO_NATIVE_FILEDIALOGS
environment variable to 1 as described here:
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/customize.html#environment-variables

Changed in calibre:
status: New → Invalid
Revision history for this message
Amaia Goni (agonigar) wrote :

Thanks Kovid, it was my computer! Followed your instructions and now everything is running fine.

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