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Multi-reply.

Originally Posted by saluli

I am having problems with the fetch from e-mail feature. It says it can´t connect? At same time, if I try to download from url it works.
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Another question: Did something changed in the way replace metadata works? I had managed to use it to remove (movies) and (TV) from the metadata, but they started appearing again.... Maybe I broke something while I was editing....

Judging by the error code (Errno 10060), I would speculate that you are being blocked by a firewall program on your computer--I believe we've seen that before. It might have something to do with starting the wireless device connection (SMART_DEV) on program start.

No, replace_metadata hasn't changed any time recently.

Originally Posted by Tanjamuse

I have another problem though. When I try to update metadata on ebooks I've downloaded on the website, it gives me this error:

maximum recursion depth exceeded
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/311682/1/

Well, that's worrying. (goes and looks) Ah. That is caused by some egregiously bad HTML from the author. They've somehow replaced all of their <font> tags with <pont>--without changing the closing tags. See:



So the HTML parser keeps recursing deeper and deeper looking for close tags and not finding them until it hits the maximum recursion depth and fails. My browser does something similar; ~2/3 down the page it gives up trying to fix it.

There's a limit to how much bad HTML FanFicFare will try to handle, and this is well past it. Sorry.

Originally Posted by version365

Calibre allows multiple Libraries..

But, I have noticed that there is only one Fanficfare file in zip format in appdata folder of calibre (i.e. %appdata%/calibre/plugins).

So my question is, If I delete FFF plugin from one library, would it get deleted from other libraries as well?

[and further discussion]

Each plugin is install in Calibre in general. Plugins are never installed 'inside' individual libraries. If a plugin is uninstalled, it is not available regardless of library.

Plugin Settings can be universal or per-library, depending on how the plugin author chose to implement it.

A number of plugins (usually older ones) save their settings inside a file (usually .json) saved in the plugin directory. Some of them use the same settings for all libraries and some save different settings for different libraries inside that file. FanFicFare used that back in the FFDL days, up to Jul 2012.

That's when Calibre made available a place in each library's database where plugins could save their settings so that copying/moving/backing-up a library directory would also get it's associated plugin settings. FanFicFare uses this method today.

BUT! When you switch to a new library that doesn't already have any settings for FanFicFare, FanFicFare will copy your settings from the previous library. This may lead you to think they share settings, but they do not. (Unless, of course, something is broken.)

Only keeping one set of settings for all libraries could possibly be added to FFF as a feature if enough people want it.

Originally Posted by scarlettruin

When I go to download an anthology at http://www.midnightwhispers.net/viewstory.php?sid=3538, I get the error 'object of type 'NoneType' has no lens()'. I'm pretty sure I should be able to download this - any ideas what I can do please?

FanFicFare supports www.midnightwhispers.ca, not www.midnightwhispers.net. But it looks like the .ca domain has gone away and midnightwhispers.net replaced it. Test version with that change coming soon.