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BetterRed · 11-10-2019, 04:23 AM

Bit of long shot.

When you are editing a book, you're working on a copy of it in a system temporary folder, I have no idea where that might be on a MacOS system, but it looks like you have some sort of permissions issue with it - again no idea why.

But, Calibre has an Environment Variable, CALIBRE_TEMP_DIR, that allows you to set the location where it creates its 'temporary files" see ==>> Environment variables - there's a link to a 'how to set Env Vars' at the end of that page.

Try creating a directory named say 'CalibreTemp' in your home directory and set CALIBRE_TEMP_DIR to it - now run the editor and do a spell check.

Good luck

BR

11-10-2019, 04:23 AM	#9
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,829 Karma: 30277270 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	Bit of long shot. When you are editing a book, you're working on a copy of it in a system temporary folder, I have no idea where that might be on a MacOS system, but it looks like you have some sort of permissions issue with it - again no idea why. But, Calibre has an Environment Variable, CALIBRE_TEMP_DIR, that allows you to set the location where it creates its 'temporary files" see ==>> Environment variables - there's a link to a 'how to set Env Vars' at the end of that page. Try creating a directory named say 'CalibreTemp' in your home directory and set CALIBRE_TEMP_DIR to it - now run the editor and do a spell check. Good luck BR