Import errors

[ksyed0]

Hello, I am a long time Calibre user. I don't use a lot of advanced functionality, usually I import (nonDRM) eBooks, update their covers/metadata, convert to ePub, and export to import into Marvin or whatever to read my books on my iPad.

I recently had a problem importing some books. I tried to import a group of books, and got the following error:

calibre, version 2.81.0
ERROR: Errors while adding: Failed to add any books, click "Show details" for more information


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Failed to add the book: The Fall of the House of Cabal
/Users/mks/Desktop/JLHFall of the House of Cabal.epub
With error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/add.py", line 379, in add_book
File "site-packages/calibre/db/legacy.py", line 217, in create_book_entry
File "site-packages/calibre/db/cache.py", line 62, in call_func_with_lock
File "site-packages/calibre/db/cache.py", line 1541, in create_book_entry
File "site-packages/calibre/db/cache.py", line 1263, in set_metadata
File "site-packages/calibre/db/cache.py", line 1090, in update_path
File "site-packages/calibre/db/backend.py", line 1535, in update_path
File "lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Users/Shared/eBooks/CalibreLibrary/Jonathan L. Howard/The Fall of the House of Cabal (3659)'

I've checked the permissions on the path, they seem to be OK, and completed a disk check for corruption, no errors. Other books in the same batch were imported correctly. Any ideas?

MKS

[theducks]

1) Move it off the desktop to a regular folder.
2) was it open with some other program?

[ksyed0]

Thanks for the reply.

It isn't open in another program.

I tried moving to another folder and importing again, its the same error.

The error isn't with reading the file, its with creating the destination folder. I checked and there isn't a folder with that name there already.

MKS

[kovidgoyal]

That is a permission denied error trying to create a directory. Either the parent directory has incorrect permissions, or you are running into some filesystem limits/bugs.

Since you seem to have placed it in the OS X shared folder, permissions issues are the most likely.

[ksyed0]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

That is a permission denied error trying to create a directory. Either the parent directory has incorrect permissions, or you are running into some filesystem limits/bugs.

Since you seem to have placed it in the OS X shared folder, permissions issues are the most likely.

Thanks, I saw that and I tried to repair permissions, and ensure that I am the "owner" of the folder. Strangely I am able to import other books (into the same library) but not this and one other.

I'll try to move the library into my home folder.

MKS