unRar Issues

[PeterT]

Am having some problems right now with a book in RAR format (collection of HTML pages) and converting it to ePub.

Actually problem seems to come on ANY conversion of this book. I get the following:

Spoiler:

calibre, version 0.8.7
ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Convert book 1 of 1 (We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea)

Convert book 1 of 1 (We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea)
Processing archive...
Python function terminated unexpectedly
File create error (Error Code: 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 132, in main
File "site.py", line 109, in run_entry_point
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 181, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 31, in gui_convert_override
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 22, in gui_convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 602, in __init__
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 669, in unarchive
File "site-packages\calibre\__init__.py", line 266, in extract
File "site-packages\calibre\libunrar.py", line 190, in extract
calibre.libunrar.UnRARException: File create error

This is using the most recent build of 0.8.7

Any guidelines people can suggest for tracking down WHY I get the File Create error?

[kovidgoyal]

libunrar is unable to open your file, most likely it is not ana ctual rar file but instead a zip or something like that with the wrong extension. Try opening it with winrar and save it as the correct format.