For anyone else reading this thread calibre conversions do not get stuck. The book may take forever to convert. The conversion of the book may run out of memory or run into any number of fatal errors that kill the process and report an error.
I can count on 2 fingers of one hand the number of times over the last 4 years that someone said calibre got stuck while converting and we could not quickly figure out what was actually happening on their machine. I cannot recall the end result, but it may have been a regression between updates that Kovid fixed in the subsequent release.
While that means there may be the remotest of possibilities that a conversion may get stuck the odds are severely stacked against anyone actually experiencing a conversion that truly got stuck.
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Originally Posted by MeSue
Every time I have had one that got stuck, it worked after unchecking the "enable heuristic processing" (might not be exact wording) in the conversion settings. Try that.
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Good observation and advice. Heuristic processing can take quite a bit of time on some books and unchecking that option will bypass the time required by heuristic processing and speed up the conversion greatly. But heuristic processing is not a known cause of the conversion process getting "stuck."
It is however, a known cause of folks thinking the conversion process is stuck.
