Hi

On Thu, 09 May 2019, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> I delete them, calibre recreates them.

If you start calibre as root, yes. That is nothing I can do against it.

If you start it as non-root, you don't have write permissions.
I just *tried* it.

> to create those files, running calibre as root suffices which is hardly
> impossible, and is exactly what has happened in this case.

Well, that is something that is not to be expected. And I guess that a
lot of other python programs will have similar problems when you run
something as root.

Norbert

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