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Originally Posted by PsychoticSid
That's what the strange part is: I can only read the native azw file when I choose to open mobipocket from the "download/open file" box while downloading but I can't when the azw file is already on my computer. If I do an "open with" once the file is on my computer I get the error "This file format is not supported". It only works when firefox asks me what to do with the file and I choose open with mobipocket.
I'm using Mobipocket reader Version : 6.0 Build 580
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You may want to update your reader. However, it may not fix this problem. What is happening is that command line processing is being done differently from loading a file which is not unusual, by the way. When firefox passes the file it uses a form of [pathname]/mobipocket reader.exe filename.azw to launch the executable and pass in the argument. You could try the same technique from a command windows. The program doesn't check the file extension but just trys to parse the data.
However, when Mobi itself opens the file it inspects the extension to determine the type of file and then shows an error based on internal checking for user mistakes. If the extension is renamed then the open will work fine.
Dale