03-02-2014, 12:13 PM | #1 |
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Conversion fails when book file is large and library is in Dropbox
I have some book files which are quite large (e.g. 7.8 Mb). My Calibre library is held in my Dropbox account. When I try to convert one of these book files to another format (it does not seem to matter what format), the conversion fails, with the error message:
calibre, version 1.26.0 ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>IOError</b>:[Errno 13] File is open in another process: u'c:\\users\\paul\\documents\\my dropbox\\public\\pablo2340\\thomas cahill\\sailing the wine-dark sea (1800)\\sailing the wine-dark sea - thomas cahill.epub' The details of the failure are: calibre 1.26 isfrozen: True is64bit: False Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 Windows ('32bit', 'WindowsPE') 32bit process running on 64bit windows ('Windows', '7', '6.1.7601') Python 2.7.5 Windows: ('7', '6.1.7601', 'SP1', 'Multiprocessor Free') Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\single.py", line 278, in accept File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\metadata.py", line 236, in commit File "site-packages\calibre\db\legacy.py", line 465, in set_metadata File "site-packages\calibre\db\cache.py", line 57, in call_func_with_lock File "site-packages\calibre\db\cache.py", line 1157, in set_metadata File "site-packages\calibre\db\cache.py", line 1144, in set_field File "site-packages\calibre\db\cache.py", line 945, in set_field File "site-packages\calibre\db\backend.py", line 1357, in windows_check_if_files_in_use File "site-packages\calibre\utils\filenames.py", line 370, in __init__ IOError: [Errno 13] File is open in another process: u'c:\\users\\paul\\documents\\my dropbox\\public\\pablo2340\\thomas cahill\\sailing the wine-dark sea (1800)\\sailing the wine-dark sea - thomas cahill.epub' Would it help, I wonder, if I were running the 64-bit version of Calibre (which I THINK I used to have)? If I close down Dropbox, the conversion goes ahead without a hitch... Any ideas? Paul |
03-02-2014, 01:15 PM | #2 |
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The cloud (and net attached storage) is not officially recommended (supported). Now you know why. It is not reliable under all cases. You found one of those (the hard way). |
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03-02-2014, 03:23 PM | #3 |
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If you are using Dropbox then you should disable Dropbox syncing while using Calibre to help avoid such problems.
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You already found your solution. Simply pause syncing on Dropbox while you are active with your library then resume sync when you are finished. |
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03-03-2014, 09:23 AM | #5 |
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Yes, stopping DropBox seems to be the solution.
Thanks, all, for your help. Paul |
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