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JDesat · 01-21-2023, 09:24 PM

I'm not sure if this is a new issue or if it's only happening to me (I scrolled through the last few pages of this thread and didn't see anything about it), but in the last few days, maybe a week, I've been having new issues with downloading stories from FFN.

If it's a new story I'm downloading I tend to use WebToEpub to cache the pages, though I've noticed this error happening even when I load them manually (first and last chapter when it's just an update).

When using WebToEpub any chapter where the plugin has halted and I've had to manually jump to that page to get it going again doesn't get downloaded (even though, as far as I know, it should be doubly cached, once from my manual loading of the page and once through WebToEpub). I've tried throttling the speed at which WebToEpub runs, but even when those errors/pauses don't pop up I find I'm still missing at least one chapter. Further, if I try WtoE once and it halts at times, if I throttle it, run it again, and then try and download with FFF again the same chapters are still missing.

Sadly, I didn't even think to check what chapter(s) are missing when I have had the issue on stories that are just updates (though I assume it has to be the new chapter since that's the only one that should be downloaded). In either case, and there might be a workaround for this that I don't know, I've been deleting the story from Calibre, and generally running WebToEpub again later and then FFF to download it as a fresh story. This has normally worked - though there is one story that I've been unable to download in its entirety for the last few days and it's been updating daily: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1411117...-of-the-Desert).

I'm sure this is a rambling mess, but if there's either a way to avoid this entirely, or a way to just have FFF download and add the missing chapters, I'd love to hear it. I'm wondering if it's an issue with how the pages are getting cached on my end, but I haven't changed anything. I think I'm going to try waiting for the 4 hours (I think?) the pages are cached to go by, then run WebToEpub throttled so it doesn't pause at all, then try FFF again. I haven't tried that yet. But even if that works, if there's a setting I can use to download/fix missing chapters I'd like to know.

Thanks!

01-21-2023, 09:24 PM	#7970
JDesat Zealot Posts: 101 Karma: 32768 Join Date: Dec 2012 Device: Kobo Glo HD, Kobo Clara HD	I'm not sure if this is a new issue or if it's only happening to me (I scrolled through the last few pages of this thread and didn't see anything about it), but in the last few days, maybe a week, I've been having new issues with downloading stories from FFN. If it's a new story I'm downloading I tend to use WebToEpub to cache the pages, though I've noticed this error happening even when I load them manually (first and last chapter when it's just an update). When using WebToEpub any chapter where the plugin has halted and I've had to manually jump to that page to get it going again doesn't get downloaded (even though, as far as I know, it should be doubly cached, once from my manual loading of the page and once through WebToEpub). I've tried throttling the speed at which WebToEpub runs, but even when those errors/pauses don't pop up I find I'm still missing at least one chapter. Further, if I try WtoE once and it halts at times, if I throttle it, run it again, and then try and download with FFF again the same chapters are still missing. Sadly, I didn't even think to check what chapter(s) are missing when I have had the issue on stories that are just updates (though I assume it has to be the new chapter since that's the only one that should be downloaded). In either case, and there might be a workaround for this that I don't know, I've been deleting the story from Calibre, and generally running WebToEpub again later and then FFF to download it as a fresh story. This has normally worked - though there is one story that I've been unable to download in its entirety for the last few days and it's been updating daily: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1411117...-of-the-Desert). I'm sure this is a rambling mess, but if there's either a way to avoid this entirely, or a way to just have FFF download and add the missing chapters, I'd love to hear it. I'm wondering if it's an issue with how the pages are getting cached on my end, but I haven't changed anything. I think I'm going to try waiting for the 4 hours (I think?) the pages are cached to go by, then run WebToEpub throttled so it doesn't pause at all, then try FFF again. I haven't tried that yet. But even if that works, if there's a setting I can use to download/fix missing chapters I'd like to know. Thanks!