[Shykat]

Well FUDGE....

I did 2 books.. the two that I had been working on before. Just tried a third.

I added the book then opened edit metadata and filled in the author the way I like it and then added in the book information.

Everything looks great... all the same steps I did with the other two books and now.. again..... I click OK and I'm not trying to move the book.. just add the metadata information... and I get

calibre, version 6.17.0
ERROR: Permission denied: Could not change the on disk location of this book. Is it open in another program?

Locked file: F:\Calibre ebooks\Rebel Bloom\Mountain Man Triplets_ A Reverse Ha (3237)

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\utils\copy_files.py", line 212, in copy_tree
File "shutil.py", line 739, in rmtree
File "shutil.py", line 621, in _rmtree_unsafe
File "shutil.py", line 619, in _rmtree_unsafe
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'F:\\Calibre ebooks\\Rebel Bloom\\Mountain Man Triplets_ A Reverse Ha (3237)'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\gui2\metadata\single.py", line 617, in apply_changes
File "calibre\gui2\metadata\basic_widgets.py", line 241, in commit
File "calibre\db\legacy.py", line 934, in func
File "calibre\db\cache.py", line 85, in call_func_with_lock
File "calibre\db\cache.py", line 1508, in set_field
File "calibre\db\cache.py", line 1522, in update_path
File "calibre\db\backend.py", line 1875, in update_path
File "calibre\utils\copy_files.py", line 216, in copy_tree
File "shutil.py", line 739, in rmtree
File "shutil.py", line 621, in _rmtree_unsafe
File "shutil.py", line 619, in _rmtree_unsafe
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'F:\\Calibre ebooks\\Rebel Bloom\\Mountain Man Triplets_ A Reverse Ha (3237)'

The permission error at the bottom... is a directory with the book's original title and then, I look in the directory and see there is a directgory with the book's original title with nothing in it and then a directory with the new title I have used and in that directory is an epub with the title formatted the way I like it.

I click okay to close the error and the window and, on the main screen, the book's cover is no longer there. and when I try to delete the file, I get:

calibre, version 6.17.0
ERROR: Permission denied: Could not access Mountain Man Triplets_ A Reverse Ha (3237). Is it being used by another program? Click "Show details" for more information.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\utils\copy_files.py", line 212, in copy_tree
File "shutil.py", line 739, in rmtree
File "shutil.py", line 621, in _rmtree_unsafe
File "shutil.py", line 619, in _rmtree_unsafe
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'F:\\Calibre ebooks\\Rebel Bloom\\Mountain Man Triplets_ A Reverse Ha (3237)'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\gui2\actions\delete.py", line 459, in do_library_delete
File "calibre\gui2\library\models.py", line 464, in delete_books_by_id
File "calibre\db\cache.py", line 85, in call_func_with_lock
File "calibre\db\cache.py", line 2082, in remove_books
File "calibre\db\backend.py", line 2148, in remove_books
File "calibre\db\backend.py", line 2041, in move_book_to_trash
File "calibre\utils\copy_files.py", line 216, in copy_tree
File "shutil.py", line 739, in rmtree
File "shutil.py", line 621, in _rmtree_unsafe
File "shutil.py", line 619, in _rmtree_unsafe
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'F:\\Calibre ebooks\\Rebel Bloom\\Mountain Man Triplets_ A Reverse Ha (3237)'

It keeps pointing back to the directory with the old book's name and not the new one. To get the book to be deleted, after I get that error, I have to close Calibre and then open it again and the book is gone.

I don't know why those first 2 finally worked and now this one doesn't.