Settings reset in main calibre program when pc turns off due to power failure

[Anangaya Malsara]

If calbre main program is running when my pc turns off due to power cut (ups is not working!😑) it's interface and library settings completely resets. libraries themselves aren't affected but I have to add all the existing libraries and reedit the tool bar and menus.

version: calibre 5.37 [64bit]
operating system: Windows

Thank you

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

I cannot replicate this, indeed the only way I can see it happening is
if calibre was actually writing updated settings when the power died.
Which should be very unlikely.

That said I could possibly change it to do the write atomically, which
will avoid this issue.

[Anangaya Malsara (anangaya)]

I first thought it Happened when I was downloading some books using fanficfare plugin but then it Happened twice when I was not doing anything like that.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

If it is happening when nothing is going on then something else is the
matter, I doubt my fix will change anything, but feel to try.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

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

 status fixreleased

[Anangaya Malsara (anangaya)]

Ok. Thanks for your time.

[Anangaya Malsara (anangaya)]

The issue is still there. This time it happened when I properly shutdown the pc (though I did not close the calibre main program.) Is there a way to backup the settings in the main program that I'm loosing (set of my libraries and the toolbar settings are the most important). I suppose reinstalling windows will solve this issue.

I forgot to mentioned it but when this issue happens(sometimes?) the program starts like I installed it for the first time, confirming the last used library location (which is the only library that it remembers) and even adding "Quick Start Guide - John Schember.epub" to that library.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

You can access the configuration directory via
Preferences->Miscellaneous and siply copy it out to back it up.

[Anangaya Malsara (anangaya)]

Ok. Thanks!