Opening a PDF in calibre changes the default "Open with" app

[Daniel Essin]

Windows 8, 64-bit Calibre
Downloaded a PDF
Used the Windows explorer to locate the file
Right-clicked and selected "Open with..." calibre.exe
Calibre added the file to the library
Then clicked on the PDF linkon the right-hand side of the screen that usually opens the item for viewing.
Instead of opening a viewer, it added the PDF to Calibre again, and again
And, attempting to view any other PDF stored in Calibre added it again.

Went to windows Explorer examing the properties of the PDF
Observed that the default "Open With" app had been changed from Acrobat to Calibre.
Changed the Default app back to Acrobat

Went back to Calibre, clicked PDF and the book opened in Acrobat

This problem does not occur on the Mac and I think it is new on Windows, as I have done this procedure many times before and never experienced this behavior until now (1.10).

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

I cannot reproduce this, steps I tried:

1) Associate pdf with acrobat
2) Right click a pdf file in windows explorer and choose open with
calibre
3) click the pdf file in claibre, it opens in acrobat

I am guessing you had the checkbox at the bottom of the open with screen
that say "always use this program to open files of this type" checked.

 status invalid

[Daniel Essin (essin)]

On 11/9/2013 5:33 PM, Kovid Goyal wrote:
> I cannot reproduce this, steps I tried:
>
> 1) Associate pdf with acrobat
> 2) Right click a pdf file in windows explorer and choose open with
> calibre
> 3) click the pdf file in claibre, it opens in acrobat
>
> I am guessing you had the checkbox at the bottom of the open with screen
> that say "always use this program to open files of this type" checked.
It's quite possible. I don't think Windows 8 even has a clearly defined
box. It may be indicated by some other means or it simply assumes that
is what you want.

You might consider making a check that the attempts to open a viewer are
not simply recursively calling Calibre itself to avoid the problem of
creating duplicate books in the library?

Thank you,
Dan Essin
>
> status invalid
>
> ** Changed in: calibre
> Status: New => Invalid
>

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Sure, I can always adda check to see if windows is going to use calibre
to open the file.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every Friday.

 status fixreleased

[Daniel Essin (essin)]

Thank you

> On Nov 9, 2013, at 8:14 PM, Kovid Goyal <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Sure, I can always adda check to see if windows is going to use calibre
> to open the file.
>
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> Title:
> Opening a PDF in calibre changes the default "Open with" app
>
> Status in calibre: e-book management:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Windows 8, 64-bit Calibre
> Downloaded a PDF
> Used the Windows explorer to locate the file
> Right-clicked and selected "Open with..." calibre.exe
> Calibre added the file to the library
> Then clicked on the PDF linkon the right-hand side of the screen that usually opens the item for viewing.
> Instead of opening a viewer, it added the PDF to Calibre again, and again
> And, attempting to view any other PDF stored in Calibre added it again.
>
> Went to windows Explorer examing the properties of the PDF
> Observed that the default "Open With" app had been changed from Acrobat to Calibre.
> Changed the Default app back to Acrobat
>
> Went back to Calibre, clicked PDF and the book opened in Acrobat
>
> This problem does not occur on the Mac and I think it is new on
> Windows, as I have done this procedure many times before and never
> experienced this behavior until now (1.10).
>
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