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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Click the show details on the error message popup and post the full error. And remeber that this is space in whatever drive has the temporary directory which may or may not be your main disk.
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Yea, thanks, but I know how to show the details. This "not enough space" error happened a couple of days ago, so I no longer have access to open that popup. The temp directory was on the C: drive in the default users temp directory (I changed the temp dirs yesterday to c:\calibre_cache\cache\ and c:\calibre_cache\temp\), and the C: drive still has 165 gigs of free space. The problem has nothing to do with not enough space on the hard drive. It has to do with not enough memory to finish the operation I was doing. I believe there is a problem with how Calibre handles memory and releases memory.
I've had these memory type of problems with Calibre off and on for a long time. Even two years ago, when I was spending about 16 hours every day editing regular-sized books (for example: editing and reformatting books borrowed from Open Library), the "edit book" window would suddenly disappear sometimes, so I got in the habit of saving the file every minute or so--because one time I had forgotten to save the file for about an hour and had tons of edits to do over.
I've also learned that when Calibre crashes, I need to manually delete the temp files in the temp directory. A week or more ago, Calibre became very slow. It was taking about 5 minutes to save a 61MB file and a long time to do any function (beautify, smarten, check book, remove unused CSS rules, etc). I finally discovered tons of old calibre temp files in the default temp folders (due to all the crashes I've had since I last installed Calibre), so I deleted them and that took a long time. After that, Calibre is back to operating like it should and is no longer slow (except I'm still having crashes where the Edit Book window suddenly disappears).
Anyway, I think I'll upgrade to 3.9 today and try that again. I'll post here if anything happens that shouldn't happen.