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BetterRed · 12-13-2014, 08:29 PM

It works fine in Windows 8 (and 8.1) - like shooting ducks on a pond

@EditorOne, if you started the editor from within a calibre library the book should be saved in the book folder. Press O on the book in the book list and the folder will open. Check its attributes (read only ?) and permissions.

Otherwise check the attributes and permissions of the file you started with. Rumour is, one of the popular torrent clients has started marking finished torrents as read only - maybe you fell down that rabbit hole too.

Save As works as the same as other applications such as Sigil, spreadsheets, text editors, image editors, you have to tell it where to save.

As a final resort you could try bypassing the Windows file dialogues, not sure of it works in Win 8, see CALIBRE_NO_NATIVE_FILEDIALOGS in Customizing calibre — Environment Variables

Added - What file system are you using on 8.1, I came across one the other day with ReFS installed... owner wondered why things didn't work, it was a bespoke system built for gaming <sigh>

No problems on Windows 10 Preview with NTFS

BR

12-13-2014, 08:29 PM	#7
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,847 Karma: 30277270 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	It works fine in Windows 8 (and 8.1) - like shooting ducks on a pond @EditorOne, if you started the editor from within a calibre library the book should be saved in the book folder. Press O on the book in the book list and the folder will open. Check its attributes (read only ?) and permissions. Otherwise check the attributes and permissions of the file you started with. Rumour is, one of the popular torrent clients has started marking finished torrents as read only - maybe you fell down that rabbit hole too. Save As works as the same as other applications such as Sigil, spreadsheets, text editors, image editors, you have to tell it where to save. As a final resort you could try bypassing the Windows file dialogues, not sure of it works in Win 8, see CALIBRE_NO_NATIVE_FILEDIALOGS in Customizing calibre — Environment Variables Added - What file system are you using on 8.1, I came across one the other day with ReFS installed... owner wondered why things didn't work, it was a bespoke system built for gaming <sigh> No problems on Windows 10 Preview with NTFS BR Last edited by BetterRed; 12-13-2014 at 10:37 PM.