10-26-2008, 11:54 AM | #1 |
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Okay, seriously confused about MobiDeDrm
Okay, while I love technology and new gadgets bring a tear to my eye, I'm sorry to say that when it comes to something like...oh, programming...I'm clueless. I have a book that I need to use MobiDeDrm on. I've tried and tried and TRIED to decipher the Idiot's Guide to using Python and all the other (I'm sure they really are to someone other than me) "helpful" guides to using this software. But not only do I not know what I'm doing, I don't even know if I've got the MobiDeDRM software! I downloaded a zip file with MobiDeDRM text files--but what the heck do I do with those? What's the point of those?
Is there any way I could get someone to take me through the process step-by-step (if you're allowed to, that is) so I can figure it out? Once I get it, I should be fine, but right now I've got a bunch of pieces that I can't quite figure out how to put together. Any help would be greatly appreciated! |
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join the club. Im lost too. I got so frustrated last night, I slammed my keyboard.
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10-26-2008, 01:41 PM | #3 |
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In general, when you download source code from (say) pastebin.com it comes as a .txt file. You need to rename it to indicate its language. If it is a Python script, change .txt to .py. After it is renamed, if you have Python installed, Windows will recognize the file as a Python script and you can use it as a command name on the command line.
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10-26-2008, 02:29 PM | #4 |
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Okay, I did that and it does recognize the file as a Python script, but when I click on the file to open it, a little black screen pops up, then disappears entirely. I know I'm doing this soooo wrong...
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I get this message.
File '<stdin> ", line 1 in "<module>" nameerror: name "mobidedrm" is not defined. the script I have is mobidedrm04.py which i placed in the scripts folder. |
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You need to open a command window. Navigate to the dir where the script is on your hard drive. Then, type the name of the script and press enter. It should respond with a message about the copyright and version number. Can you get that far? BOb |
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I now how you feel, it has taken me a few weeks to work out where ad what to do on the MAC, but finally got it working last night.
I'm sorry if you already know this but, to run a "DOS box" which is what I think pilotbob is suggesting, go to your start button and find the "Run" command/icon/instruction, when it opens, type in either CMD and hit enter, or Command and hit enter. In your case I don't think it will mattter which you use. At that point one of 2 things will happen. Either your whole screen goes black with a little white line and C:> appears at the top left or you get a "Dos Box" with the same inside it. (If the screen goes all black it just means your "Dos" is set to run full screen. Then, navigate to where your script is on your hard drive within the Dos box, by means of the DOS commands. eg if your script is in a file called "Softwarehack" in your C drive it would be: "cd softwarehack" & then enter (ignore all quotes) to check, just type: "dir" & enter & it should display all the files in that folder. Then try running your script |
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Okay, the little black box popped up, but instead of just the C:> prompt, I get C:\DOCUME~1\WALLFLOWER~1> instead. I typed in python25 and got a version number and copyright message. But when I typed in the name of the script, all I got was
Traceback <most recent call last>: File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> Name error: name is not defined Am I at least on the right track???? |
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And I get the error when I type the name of the file (f2a681132). I've tried typing in the name of the program and got the same message. |
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Copy both the script and the ebook you want to open into your My Document folder. Then repeat the steps you did before to get to the black screen. Once you do all type the following into the black screen: mobidedrm04.py name-of-ebook your-PID
(Replace name-of-ebook with your ebook name and your-PID with the your PID number) |
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mobidedrm04.py is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. And back to the C prompt I go. Is there an icon for throwing your keyboard through the monitor?? |
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Try locating the script (and document you are converting) within the python25 folder..and running it from there.
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Then type this line: mobidedrm04.py name-of-ebook your-PID |
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