since I just got calibre, I'm doing a lot of books all at once. Some of these I've had since the 90's and they've been through various conversions as my preferred readers changed.
So I've been setting up a load to convert before I go to sleep, and overall, it works admirably well, if it can't convert something cause I've mangled it too much, it thros up an error message but continues converting the rest.
however, there are some, where it just chokes, produces no error and will just sit the rest of the night without moving on.
this happens mostly on
chm or
pdf files. (I made a lot of the pdf files myself, and i'll be damned if I can remember what tool I used when for those...
my DRM'd files won't convert but Calibre just raises an error and moves on without a hitch.
So while I'm sick of wasting money on DRM'ed content I end up not really owning and can't read on my phone in the end, that's not whats stalling my conversion progress.
But there's some error condition Calibre fails to handle and it'll just sit there until I come to the computer in the morning and cancel that particular job.
Is there one of the many input settings I can change to avoid that? The defaults work satisfyingly well for conversions, so I didn't really want to mess with them, unless it fixes getting stuck on things..?
Or can I get a log of the stalled conversion somehow to try to see what I might have to fix in the input file?