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Old 07-30-2020, 04:37 PM   #323
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Originally Posted by Doitsu View Post
Any epub that will produce the error that you reported.
(Note that you can't post commercial books on MR.)
I'm afraid it's not so simple. After reading your reply, I was just looking for a file that displayed the error when 'usage' was set to 'true' and I ran through about 8 files that were all good and correctly displayed a number of 'less than ideal' features (not to call them epub errors).

Then the next file produced that error message in my post above. I thought there must be some significant difference between this file and the previous eight. I went back to those previous eight files and they too then produced the error message.

Now every file I try produces that error message when 'usage: true' is set.

That confirms what I thought about yesterday's and this morning's performance: that I had successfully used the plugin with 'usage: true'. It appears that for a while, all works correctly, and then after several files (or after a certain interval?) nothing works correctly.

The 'fault' lies elsewhere than in the epub files. I have tried removing the plugin and reinstalling from the download zip in the first post to this thread. I removed the json preferences file which caused the new installation of the plugin to go check and download an update (as it did yesterday, too). The results were the same: nothing worked with 'usage: true'.

I shut down Sigil for about an hour and then came back and read your reply so went looking for a 'bad' file and the results are in my first para above.

So.... I'm using UbuntuStudio 18.04 (waiting for 20.04.1 to come out any day soon). Is it a consequence of my OS? Is some 'garbage' building up somewhere after repetitive use of the plugin? Remember how Windows95 used to run out of memory after opening and closing a couple of applications - and then failed with the BSOD?

I have checked that when I close Sigil, the process is killed and when I open another file, Sigil starts with a new process.

Last edited by philja; 07-30-2020 at 04:40 PM. Reason: small correction
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