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Old 03-08-2012, 12:10 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by kappsta View Post
Hi. I added an epub to Calibre. When I try to open it in Calibre's E-book reader I get the following error. Hopefully this is the right place to post bugs. Any help? I am running Win7 x64. Thanks.



calibre, version 0.8.41
ERROR: Could not open ebook: [Error 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect: u'C:\\Users\\Kazzy\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_ 0.8.41_tmp_9cicbb\\zppnur_ebook_iter\\OPS\\images\ \href="images'

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\viewer\main.py", line 64, in run
File "threading.py", line 483, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\iterator.py", line 205, in __enter__
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 208, in __call__
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plugins\epub_in put.py", line 141, in convert
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\zipfile.py", line 1087, in extractall
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\zipfile.py", line 1071, in extract
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\zipfile.py", line 1111, in _extract_member
File "os.py", line 157, in makedirs
WindowsError: [Error 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect: u'C:\\Users\\Kazzy\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_ 0.8.41_tmp_9cicbb\\zppnur_ebook_iter\\OPS\\images\ \href="images'

Have you validated the EPUB and CSS? Something looks wierd about the 'images' path

Flightcrew is a great tool to validate the EPUB (but it does not validate CSS).
the CSS can be validated here http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/#validate_by_upload

Use Tweak (T) to explode the EPUB
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