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SigilBear · 03-06-2017, 07:59 PM

If I purchase an epub from Amazon, iBooks or whoever, there should be a new file in my computer. But where is it located?

I discovered the path to epubs I buy from Apple:

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books

But when I navigate to that folder, I'm able to open the files in iBooks but not in Sigil. Are epubs simply designed to "lock out" people who buy them, so they can't accidentally mess up the html?

There's one file I want to locate in particular - an epub I'm working on. I accidentally messed up one file that isn't in my backup. So the only way to retrieve the correct XHTML is to access the copy that I can view in iBooks.

To put it another way, I can preview this book in iBooks. But if I delete THIS BOOK from iBooks, then double-click THIS BOOK on my desktop, it will load the epub back in iBooks, but with the flawed file, not the original.

So, if the correct version is presently viewable in iBooks, is there a way to 1) view the XHTML, 2) copy or export it or 3) locate a copy that can be opened with Sigil, BBEdit, or some other program?

Thanks.

03-06-2017, 07:59 PM	#1
SigilBear Banned Posts: 244 Karma: 2112680 Join Date: Jan 2017 Device: iBooks	Locating Epub Files If I purchase an epub from Amazon, iBooks or whoever, there should be a new file in my computer. But where is it located? I discovered the path to epubs I buy from Apple: ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books But when I navigate to that folder, I'm able to open the files in iBooks but not in Sigil. Are epubs simply designed to "lock out" people who buy them, so they can't accidentally mess up the html? There's one file I want to locate in particular - an epub I'm working on. I accidentally messed up one file that isn't in my backup. So the only way to retrieve the correct XHTML is to access the copy that I can view in iBooks. To put it another way, I can preview this book in iBooks. But if I delete THIS BOOK from iBooks, then double-click THIS BOOK on my desktop, it will load the epub back in iBooks, but with the flawed file, not the original. So, if the correct version is presently viewable in iBooks, is there a way to 1) view the XHTML, 2) copy or export it or 3) locate a copy that can be opened with Sigil, BBEdit, or some other program? Thanks.