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Originally Posted by KevinH
Hi,
The Keyboard Input Methods are system level not Sigil level. No where in your graphic was anything related to Sigil that I can see. It appears to be a linux system level failure.
That said, try renaming the broken .epub file to a .zip file and then unzip it. Then open any of the .xhtml files in the OEBPS/Text folder with any other text editor and look to see what was written to your files.
In addition, it would not hurt to let us know what version of Sigil you are using, who built it, etc. It also would not hurt to run a disk diagnostic on your hard drives to rule out disk issues at the linux system level.
Please let us know what you find out.
KevinH
ps, when working on any large file, it never hurts to use a File->Save-As to a new name (in my case I increment a revision number as part of the name). Then if your system has issues or Sigil has problems, or your power blinks, or ... you will never lose much if anything. Sigil only ever writes to temp files until you actually tell it to save.
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Thanks Kevin.
Yes, I do that incremental version saving, but only day-by-day.
Anyway, I did the renaming to a zip and opened it up and the last file I split got gigantic (see screenshot 73). I opened that gigantic section 10 html file in Kate and there were tons of non-breaking spaces. It started here (075) and ended here (076).
I use this as the break point between chapters:
<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
I don't know. There is a beginning and ending P tag in Kate so that seemed normal, but somehow the non-breaking spaces multiplied exponentially. It seems to me (and I am a non-techie) that all those non-breaking spaces overwhelmed the file and probably broke/corrupted it.
I checked one of the other html files in a text editor and it looked normal.
The Sigil version on the computer I used is 0.8.4 by John Schember and you(?) and some others.
I'm using an old Dell (Optiplex 170L) and running Xubuntu 15.04. If you can check the second to last post (to theducks) there's a screenshot of some distortion I've been having since I upgraded the computer to 15.04. But the computer has been (besides that inconvenience) functioning excellently.
And it looks like the hard drive is okay. (77)
the ducks suggested a way of spitting the chapters and it worked well.
Anyway, that's about all I can think of.
Thank you.