View Single Post
Old 05-14-2014, 01:01 PM   #3
scissors
Addict
scissors ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.scissors ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.scissors ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.scissors ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.scissors ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.scissors ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.scissors ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.scissors ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.scissors ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.scissors ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.scissors ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 241
Karma: 1001369
Join Date: Sep 2010
Device: prs300, kindle keyboard 3g
Quote:
Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
That's a strange error, it implies that something is changing the metadata.db file while calibre is writing to it. Since sqlite (which calibre uses) locks the db file, I dont see how that is possible. Hardware errors?
hmm. did a chkdsk. okay.

just tried to change some metadata on a book and got

Spoiler:

calibre, version 1.20.0
ERROR: Permission denied: Could not change the on disk location of this book. Is it open in another program?

Locked file: d:\dropbox\public\daniel manus pinkwater\mrs. noodlekugel and four blind mic (7241)\cover.jpg

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\metadata\basic_widgets.py", line 102, in commit
File "site-packages\calibre\db\legacy.py", line 814, in func
File "site-packages\calibre\db\cache.py", line 57, in call_func_with_lock
File "site-packages\calibre\db\cache.py", line 968, in set_field
File "site-packages\calibre\db\cache.py", line 979, in update_path
File "site-packages\calibre\db\backend.py", line 1418, in update_path
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\filenames.py", line 370, in __init__
IOError: [Errno 13] File is open in another process: u'd:\\dropbox\\public\\daniel manus pinkwater\\mrs. noodlekugel and four blind mic (7241)\\cover.jpg'



clicked ok. tried immediately again and it worked.
scissors is offline   Reply With Quote