diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/rtf2xml/tokenize.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/rtf2xml/tokenize.py
index ad12daa211..45887f33e7 100755
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/rtf2xml/tokenize.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/rtf2xml/tokenize.py
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ class Tokenize:
         return line
     def __compile_expressions(self):
         self.__ms_hex_exp = re.compile(r"\\\'(..)")
-        self.__utf_exp = re.compile(r"\\u(-?\d{3,6})")
+        self.__utf_exp = re.compile(r"\\u(-?\d{3,6}) {0,1}")
         self.__splitexp = re.compile(r"(\\[\\{}]|{|}|\\[^\s\\{}&]+(?:\s)?)")
         self.__par_exp = re.compile(r'\\$')
         self.__mixed_exp = re.compile(r"(\\[a-zA-Z]+\d+)(\D+)")
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/main.py b/src/calibre/gui2/main.py
index 1e06f2eb0c..26bd764ad4 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/main.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/main.py
@@ -1621,12 +1621,13 @@ class Main(MainWindow, Ui_MainWindow, DeviceGUI):
             try:
                 os.makedirs(self.library_path)
             except:
-                self.library_path = os.path.expanduser('~/Library')
+                self.library_path = os.path.expanduser('~/CalibreLibrary')
                 error_dialog(self, _('Invalid library location'),
                      _('Could not access %s. Using %s as the library.')%
                      (repr(self.library_path), repr(self.library_path))
                              ).exec_()
-                os.makedirs(self.library_path)
+                if not os.path.exists(self.library_path):
+                    os.makedirs(self.library_path)
 
 
     def read_settings(self):