[chaley]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I ran into an issue when using FanFicFare to update a story that had a data folder.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre_plugins.fanficfare_plugin.fff_plugin", line 1798, in update_books_loop
  File "calibre_plugins.fanficfare_plugin.fff_plugin", line 2268, in update_metadata
  File "calibre\db\legacy.py", line 588, in set_metadata
  File "calibre\db\cache.py", line 85, in call_func_with_lock
  File "calibre\db\cache.py", line 1691, in set_metadata
  File "calibre\db\cache.py", line 1686, in set_field
  File "calibre\db\cache.py", line 1481, in set_field
  File "calibre\db\backend.py", line 1726, in windows_check_if_files_in_use
  File "calibre\utils\copy_files.py", line 249, in windows_check_if_files_in_use
  File "calibre\utils\copy_files.py", line 231, in register_folder_recursively
  File "os.py", line 225, in makedirs
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\data'

Neither book nor folder was open. Windows' indexing is outright disabled, but I used Everything to search for the book earlier. (There were no open file handles when I checked though.)

Additionally, the system32 folder is a bit weird. I don't think is a data folder in there.

The FanFicFare author is equally baffled:

This is probably another manifestation of the problem fixed by https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...0deac57851e0a6