[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[ronnie0602]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Okay, I think I've figured out what caused mine, at least.

Which was explore.exe--the basic Windows File Explorer.

And one of the unusual things I had done was run a file search in File Explorer.

Closing all the File Explorer windows (I'd left the search some time ago) closed the process after a short delay and I could rename that book again without error.

I knew that an open File Explorer window into a dir could cause issues, but not that a search done hours ago could...

Jimm, I'll try closing my open Windows Explorer and see what happens. I know for a fact that I have two Explorer session open and I did search for stuff more than once in the last few days. It's not unusual for me to look for files every now and again, but I don't think it caused this kind of issue before...

Now I know why I have been hanging out reading the threads here all this time. I don't always understand what I read, but still I do learn a lot, I find ideas on improving my modest setup and I truly am in awe of your and your teammates here persistence in figuring out our issues even when they don't necessarily affect your setup/functionality, and your determination to constantly improve this tool.

Like I said before, I'm grateful for the FFF plugin, for the shared knowledge and experience and no, I'm not just blowing smoke...

Thank you for not letting go!

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Okay, this is weird.

I just got a similar error to ronnie0602, occurring a couple lines earlier while setting most of the other book metadata.

Except I'm on Win10 with Calibre 6.22.

PermissionError: [WinError 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process: 'C:\\Users\\USER\\Documents\\Library\\Andrew Joshua Talon\\Paint and Powder (10896)'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

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 250, in windows_check_if_files_in_use
  File "calibre\utils\copy_files.py", line 136, in __enter__
  File "calibre\utils\copy_files.py", line 132, in open_all_handles
  File "calibre\utils\copy_files.py", line 123, in _open_file
  File "calibre\utils\copy_files.py", line 112, in _open_file
PermissionError: [WinError 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process: 'C:\\Users\\USER\\Documents\\Library\\Andrew Joshua Talon\\Paint and Powder (10896)'

And trying to change the title of that book with Calibre's Edit dialog gives the same error, so it's not just FFF. But it doesn't happen for other books, so it's not the whole library, either.

Rebooting the OS seems to have cleared it. Unfortunately, I didn't find a good way to determine which processes have a file open until after I rebooted. Really wish I'd found that first.

I'd chalk it up to weirdness from installing a JDK and an IDE this morning, but the similarity of ronnie0602's issue is concerning...

There were some changes to file-locking starting with 6.20 (and additional changes in 6.21 to fix a data-loss bug), so maybe ask Kovid. Obviously this wouldn't affect someone using 3.48 though.

[JimmXinu]

FYI, I'm seeing issues with ffnet not updating metadata immediately even while showing new chapters. I was going to link an example, but it's updated now. The update notification email for it was ~6 hours previous.

It's not the first time lately that I've seen this happen, unfortunately.

I can't think of anything we can do in FFF about it--maybe set FFF's Calculate Word Count to 'Yes Always' instead of 'Yes, unless found on site' to get a Word Count.

[ownedbycats]

Would it be possible to set Calculate Word Count on a per-site basis?

[JimmXinu]

I'm a bit reluctant to do that.

It would have to be a personal.ini setting--I'm not adding another sites list to the GUI settings. And it wouldn't be available in CLI.

There's also a problem with the built-in word count that it counts the entire epub, including titlepage, logpage, tocpage, etc. I've seen 'stories' where the title page ended up longer than the story text.

[ownedbycats]

The title page issue is what I was thinking of. Especially with AO3 stories that have a few thousand freeformtags. (Thankfully, they've since limited it to, I think, 75 or so, but that's still a pretty good chunk of text.)

Ideally, the setting would just disable word-count fetching for specific sections so that Count Pages could take over.

[FandomWitch]

Hi so I was looking into the use of FanFictionDownloader as a browser cache source. On the browser cache wiki page it says as of 4.2 that is no longer supported. But on the FanFictionDownloader FanFicFare Batch wiki page the instructions there say the writer is using FFF 4.5? Is it still possible to use FFD to populate the browser cache?

[JimmXinu]

To the best of my knowledge, as of v4.20 (not v4.2), this FFF feature does not work with the FanFictionDownloader program. I tested when I made that change using FFDL 0.9.5 which is still the current version.

I believe ownedbycats(aka chocolatechipcats)'s wiki page "FanFictionDownloader FanFicFare Batch" is out of date. It should probably be amended or removed.

[FandomWitch]

Could I use an earlier version of FFF to utilize FFD browser cache?

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I believe ownedbycats(aka chocolatechipcats)'s wiki page "FanFictionDownloader FanFicFare Batch" is out of date. It should probably be amended or removed.

I didn't write that page; LoisGNS did. (I did fix a typo on it though.)

I wrote the FFF and eReaders page.

Originally Posted by FandomWitch

Could I use an earlier version of FFF to utilize FFD browser cache?

I believe another user on MR did that, but I'm having trouble finding the post.

I wouldn't advise it. The adapters will be out-of-date so other sites won't work as expected (or just not work at all). AO3 is one of those.

[FandomWitch]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I believe another user on MR did that, but I'm having trouble finding the post.

I wouldn't advise it. The adapters will be out-of-date so other sites won't work as expected (or just not work at all). AO3 had some recent changes.

Sorry I didn't clarify. Run the earlier version just for the archival of my favorites from ff.net. Continuing to use the up to date version of FFF for everything else.

I would run a portable calibre library with the earlier FFF and, after downloading all the fics, transfer them to my original library. Would that work?

[ownedbycats]

Here's the ffnet adapter history.

I don't know the date of the old version, but unless there's any updates for breaking changes released afterwards, it should work. The January change to the URL normalization might cause some weird issues with story detection.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by FandomWitch

Could I use an earlier version of FFF to utilize FFD browser cache?

It's open source, you can do what you want.

Just be aware that you aren't going to get much support when deliberately using outdated versions.

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I didn't write that page; LoisGNS did. (I did fix a typo on it though.)

My mistake--I just looked at the last edit and assumed.

[ownedbycats]

That's what I assumed happened

[Handers]

Ah very good points, I guess I have a bit of copy paste in my future then haha