Quote:
Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
I cant replicate, steps I tried:
Code:
calibre-debug -c "from calibre.utils.lock import windows_open as open; f = open('file.epub'); f.seek(1); input()"
this locks file.epub until you press enter
then tried refreshing file.epub in the viewer, it pops up an error about the file being locked, as expected.
I dont know is sigil uses atomic file writing, but if not it might be that the eub was in an inconsistent state, causing issues. |
When I was testing, 2 in 6 times I got the failure so given the differences between software (this was on a Windows Insider preview) and hardware (running on a VMWare Workstation VM), not too surprising. As I said, in future, close the viewer and then re-open after editing is going to be my workflow.
I was originally expecting Sigil to not be able to save the file while it was open in viewer so was happy to save a couple of clicks/seconds.