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Eoaka · 05-07-2016, 01:53 AM

Hi, I hope this finds you well.

I'm having trouble opening books, any books, on calibre 2.49 on OpenSUSE Leap with XFCE. I get the following error message:

Failed to open URI "file:///home/james/Calibre%20Library/Unknown/the%20c%20book%20(2)".

Error when getting information for file '/home/james/Calibre%20Library/Unknown/the%20c%20book%20(2)': No such file or directory.

The same thing happens for epubs and pdfs.

Now I'm pretty sure it's related to xdg-open passing along %20 instead of handling the spaces properly. I found this post on this forum from a few years ago: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...4&postcount=15 Unfortunately this is referencing LXDE not XFCE, and xdg-open seems to have changed anyway.

uname-a: Linux linux-svb1 4.1.20-11-default #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Mar 18 14:42:07 UTC 2016 (0a392b2) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I've searched around for this quite a bit before asking. Also maybe I should be filing a bug report somewhere, since this is a vanilla install from the repos for both xdg-utils and Calibre. Thanks in advance for your time!

05-07-2016, 01:53 AM	#1
Eoaka Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2015 Device: kobo wifi	Can't open books, suspect xdg-open Hi, I hope this finds you well. I'm having trouble opening books, any books, on calibre 2.49 on OpenSUSE Leap with XFCE. I get the following error message: Failed to open URI "file:///home/james/Calibre%20Library/Unknown/the%20c%20book%20(2)". Error when getting information for file '/home/james/Calibre%20Library/Unknown/the%20c%20book%20(2)': No such file or directory. The same thing happens for epubs and pdfs. Now I'm pretty sure it's related to xdg-open passing along %20 instead of handling the spaces properly. I found this post on this forum from a few years ago: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...4&postcount=15 Unfortunately this is referencing LXDE not XFCE, and xdg-open seems to have changed anyway. uname-a: Linux linux-svb1 4.1.20-11-default #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Mar 18 14:42:07 UTC 2016 (0a392b2) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I've searched around for this quite a bit before asking. Also maybe I should be filing a bug report somewhere, since this is a vanilla install from the repos for both xdg-utils and Calibre. Thanks in advance for your time! Last edited by Eoaka; 05-07-2016 at 02:00 AM.