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slm · 12-01-2008, 08:39 PM

I've had very good success, but with a few bumps that may be useful to note.
First, I have much more success with mobi2mobi.exe version 37 than 40. 40 seems to stall on more files.
Second, mobi2mobi doesn't always work right. I have had some files that don't show up in the folder. I've noticed that these files tend to have either no title or the full path title. ("C:\documents\... and so on). I discovered that if I convert an html file to mobi that the folder thing does not work if the html file has no "Title" attribute. If I take the identical file, open in it Word, resave as filtered HTML and set the title to something normal, it then works.
My guess is that some conversions mess up the mobi headers and once they are messed up mobi2mobi can't change them. The title is probably particularly susceptible since the original mobipocket spec derives from the Palm convention which limited the title to 31 characters. So a title with zero characters or more than 31 may well make the rest of the header unreadable.

12-01-2008, 08:39 PM	#47
slm Fool Posts: 476 Karma: 4113712 Join Date: Feb 2003 Device: Kindle: Voyage,PW1,KOA, Kobo: Clara Colour, Nook GLP, Pocketbook verse	What works for me I've had very good success, but with a few bumps that may be useful to note. First, I have much more success with mobi2mobi.exe version 37 than 40. 40 seems to stall on more files. Second, mobi2mobi doesn't always work right. I have had some files that don't show up in the folder. I've noticed that these files tend to have either no title or the full path title. ("C:\documents\... and so on). I discovered that if I convert an html file to mobi that the folder thing does not work if the html file has no "Title" attribute. If I take the identical file, open in it Word, resave as filtered HTML and set the title to something normal, it then works. My guess is that some conversions mess up the mobi headers and once they are messed up mobi2mobi can't change them. The title is probably particularly susceptible since the original mobipocket spec derives from the Palm convention which limited the title to 31 characters. So a title with zero characters or more than 31 may well make the rest of the header unreadable.