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gefluegelt · 03-24-2017, 03:12 AM

The respective files were NOT converted from Mobi to epub in the first place, they were (and continue to be) all epubs. And the failure to edit these via Calibre is true for all of them - I've tried it in the meantime. Also, even files I know to have edited via Calibre in the past are no longer editable by Calibre.

My remark concerning the "rights" was not in view of (possible) restrictions ba Amazon, the sole distributor of mobi files, as far as I know. I rather wonder whether the Calibre editor uses some kind of plug in, Java script or whatever for its editing function. In some cases, one must allow this under MacOS explicitly (SnagIt e.g.). Such a hint - which should be expected then - however, never showed up.

On the other hand, Adobe Photoshop CS5 12.0.4 stopped working properly (at least in some respects like printing) due to a Java problem (Apple stopped supporting an older Java version which is required by CS5).

Since Sigil allows for editing with (apparently no problems) even those epub files which were included in the Calibre library before, and since these files as far as I can see afterwards show up correctly in the Calibre ebook reader, the problem can be bypassed.

Still the failure of the Calibre editor to work is curious. I did not fiddle around with my Mac, btw. It's all out of the box plus updates as required. I wonder whether other Mac users encounter the same problem.

03-24-2017, 03:12 AM	#3
gefluegelt Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2017 Device: kindle	The respective files were NOT converted from Mobi to epub in the first place, they were (and continue to be) all epubs. And the failure to edit these via Calibre is true for all of them - I've tried it in the meantime. Also, even files I know to have edited via Calibre in the past are no longer editable by Calibre. My remark concerning the "rights" was not in view of (possible) restrictions ba Amazon, the sole distributor of mobi files, as far as I know. I rather wonder whether the Calibre editor uses some kind of plug in, Java script or whatever for its editing function. In some cases, one must allow this under MacOS explicitly (SnagIt e.g.). Such a hint - which should be expected then - however, never showed up. On the other hand, Adobe Photoshop CS5 12.0.4 stopped working properly (at least in some respects like printing) due to a Java problem (Apple stopped supporting an older Java version which is required by CS5). Since Sigil allows for editing with (apparently no problems) even those epub files which were included in the Calibre library before, and since these files as far as I can see afterwards show up correctly in the Calibre ebook reader, the problem can be bypassed. Still the failure of the Calibre editor to work is curious. I did not fiddle around with my Mac, btw. It's all out of the box plus updates as required. I wonder whether other Mac users encounter the same problem. Last edited by gefluegelt; 03-24-2017 at 03:16 AM.