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Originally Posted by markpearl

Thank you for taking the time to respond, Kovid and other Mobilereaders, but after disabling my antiivirus (Eset Security Suite) the issue still persists. What's so maddening is that I can edit my ePub & AZW3 ebooks in Calibre and save the edits -- so it's not a DRM issue -- but cannot convert to other formats. I even installed the portable Calibre from your website and created a directory on an external hard drive with some ebooks in it to see if that made a difference. It didn't. I can only install and uninstall so many times before my head explodes.

I can't even find the Calibre temporary folder in Windows -- even after cutting & pasting the path in the last line of the error message. For the record, here's another of these frustrating messages I get a few seconds into these aborted conversions:

Spoiler:

calibre, version 4.23.0 (win32, embedded-python: True)
Conversion error: Failed: Convert book 1 of 1 (Edith Wharton)

Convert book 1 of 1 (Edith Wharton)
Conversion options changed from defaults:
cover: u'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_7 9a3rb\\e73mcv.jpeg'
output_profile: u'kindle_oasis'
prefer_metadata_cover: True
filter_css: u',font-family'
verbose: 2
read_metadata_from_opf: u'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_7 9a3rb\\qnag39.opf'
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 4.23.0
{'asciiize': False,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 0.0,
'book_producer': None,
'change_justification': u'original',
'chapter': u"//*[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., '\\s*((chapter|book|section|part)\\s+)|((prolog|pr ologue|epilogue)(\\s+|$))', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']",
'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak',
'comments': None,
'cover': u'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_7 9a3rb\\e73mcv.jpeg',
'debug_pipeline': None,
'dehyphenate': True,
'delete_blank_paragraphs': True,
'disable_font_rescaling': False,
'dont_compress': False,
'duplicate_links_in_toc': False,
'embed_all_fonts': False,
'embed_font_family': None,
'enable_heuristics': False,
'expand_css': False,
'extra_css': None,
'extract_to': None,
'filter_css': u',font-family',
'fix_indents': True,
'font_size_mapping': None,
'format_scene_breaks': True,
'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4,
'input_encoding': None,
'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x00000279634CF0C8>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'insert_blank_line_size': 0.5,
'insert_metadata': False,
'isbn': None,
'italicize_common_cases': True,
'keep_ligatures': False,
'language': None,
'level1_toc': None,
'level2_toc': None,
'level3_toc': None,
'line_height': 0.0,
'linearize_tables': False,
'margin_bottom': 5.0,
'margin_left': 5.0,
'margin_right': 5.0,
'margin_top': 5.0,
'markup_chapter_headings': True,
'max_toc_links': 50,
'minimum_line_height': 120.0,
'mobi_toc_at_start': False,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_inline_navbars': False,
'no_inline_toc': False,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.KindleOasisOutput object at 0x00000279634D9788>,
'page_breaks_before': u'/',
'prefer_author_sort': False,
'prefer_metadata_cover': True,
'pretty_print': False,
'pubdate': None,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': u'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_7 9a3rb\\qnag39.opf',
'remove_fake_margins': True,
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
'renumber_headings': True,
'replace_scene_breaks': u'',
'search_replace': '[]',
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'share_not_sync': False,
'smarten_punctuation': False,
'sr1_replace': None,
'sr1_search': None,
'sr2_replace': None,
'sr2_search': None,
'sr3_replace': None,
'sr3_search': None,
'start_reading_at': None,
'subset_embedded_fonts': False,
'tags': None,
'timestamp': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'toc_title': None,
'transform_css_rules': '[]',
'unsmarten_punctuation': False,
'unwrap_lines': True,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: EPUB Input running
on C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_79a3rb\tl acec.epub
Python function terminated unexpectedly
[Error 5] Access is denied: u'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_7 9a3rb\\pdjeu6_plumber' (Error Code: 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 114, in main
File "site.py", line 88, in run_entry_point
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 209, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 43, in gui_convert_override
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 28, in gui_convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 1110, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 241, in __call__
File "site-packages\calibre\__init__.py", line 435, in __enter__
WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied: u'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_7 9a3rb\\pdjeu6_plumber'

I guess I'm resigned to using my old laptop with windows 7 and calibre 4.23 until I can find and correct the problem.

I was able to reproduce your problem.

Spoiler:

calibre, version 5.10.1
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>PermissionError</b>:[WinError 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\Users\\sadie\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_ayuypwhy'

calibre 5.10.1 [64bit]  embedded-python: True is64bit: True
Windows-10-10.0.18362 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.18362')
Python 3.8.5
Windows: ('10', '10.0.18362', '', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: None
Successfully initialized third party plugins: 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre\gui2\convert\single.py", line 289, in accept
  File "calibre\gui2\convert\metadata.py", line 282, in commit
  File "calibre\gui2\convert\metadata.py", line 35, in create_opf_file
  File "calibre\ptempfile.py", line 172, in __init__
  File "calibre\ptempfile.py", line 123, in base_dir
  File "tempfile.py", line 359, in mkdtemp
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\Users\\sadie\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_ayuypwhy'

You need to open the file manager and open:

C:\Users\user\AppData\Local

Right click on Temp
Click on Properties
Click on Security
Click on edit
Highlight user
in the permissions for user remove the check under Deny
click apply
click continue on all error messages


You are done

bernie