Creating Catalogs (Archived)

[SingleEyePhotos]

Originally Posted by GRiker

That feature will be included in the next release (0.7.36)

G

Will the new feature allow me to identify which collections my books are in as well? I currently have a column for 'collection' which is separate from the standard column for tags. I've been trying to figure out a way to get the collection name listed in the catalog & have not been able to do so yet.

Thank you for all your hard work on this!

[GRiker]

Originally Posted by SingleEyePhotos

Will the new feature allow me to identify which collections my books are in as well? I currently have a column for 'collection' which is separate from the standard column for tags. I've been trying to figure out a way to get the collection name listed in the catalog & have not been able to do so yet.

You can specify a custom column to include in the Description header, that should do what you want. See 'Customizing the Output: EPUB/MOBI: Other options: Description header' in the first post of this thread.

G

[SingleEyePhotos]

Originally Posted by GRiker

You can specify a custom column to include in the Description header, that should do what you want. See 'Customizing the Output: EPUB/MOBI: Other options: Description header' in the first post of this thread.

G

Thanks! I'll be waiting for the next release then...

[GRiker]

I just found an indexing bug in the catalog generator, and missed the release window, so catalog generation will have some problems in 0.7.36 until I submit a patch for the next release. Sorry.

G

[Malcolm]

Originally Posted by GRiker

You will need to create a ticket and attach a debug trace to it.

• Capturing a debug trace
  
  • Click the Jobs: icon in the lower right corner of calibre's main window
  • In the 'calibre - jobs' dialog window, click on the most recent (closest to the top) 'Generate catalog' job
  • Click the Show job details button
  • Select all of the text in the 'Generate catalog' window, and copy it to your clipboard. Save it to a file 'debug.txt'

• Creating a ticket
  Go to calibre's project management site to report a bug. Attach the 'debug.txt' file to the ticket. Set the component field to 'Catalogs'.

There's probably a book with a character in the title that's confusing the indexer, but I need to see the debug trace to be certain.

G

Ticket created with debug file attached. Thanks for the simple instructions got the job done rather easily.

Malcolm

[GRiker]

Originally Posted by Malcolm

Ticket created with debug file attached. Thanks for the simple instructions got the job done rather easily.

Malcolm

I believe your bug should be resolved with the next release (0.7.37).

G

[Malcolm]

Thanks and to you and all your compatriots. This journey you're on in calibre is a job well done.

[beckywc]

I'm running Calibre portable and after upgrading to 7.36 I now get an error creating my catalog:

Spoiler:

ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Generate catalog

Generate catalog
Catalog_EPUB_MOBI(): Generating mobi for kindle in GUI environment
connected_device: 'None'
book count: 8
Sections: Authors, Titles, Descriptions
opts:
authorClip: 60
catalog_title: u'00 Author: Christine Warren Collection'
connected_kindle: False
descriptionClip: 100
exclude_book_marker: u':'
exclude_genre: u'.'
exclude_tags: u'~,Catalog'
header_note_source_field: ''
merge_comments: '::True'
output_profile: 'kindle'
read_book_marker: u'#read:True'
search_text: None
sort_by: None
sort_descriptions_by_author: True
sync: False
thumb_width: '1.50'
wishlist_tag: u'Wishlist'
invalidating cache at 'F:\eBook Library\CalibreConfig\caches\catalog\thumbs.zip'
thumb_width changed: -1.00" => 1.50"
Python function terminated unexpectedly
[Error 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process: 'F:\\eBook Library\\CalibreConfig\\caches\\catalog\\thumbs.zi p' (Error Code: 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 103, in main
File "site.py", line 85, in run_entry_point
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 107, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 61, in gui_catalog
File "site-packages\calibre\library\catalog.py", line 5014, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\library\catalog.py", line 1009, in __init__
WindowsError: [Error 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process: 'F:\\eBook Library\\CalibreConfig\\caches\\catalog\\thumbs.zi p'

[GRiker]

I'm looking at it, will post more info when I figure out what's happening. This is a windows-only problem, and it doesn't occur in my Windows 7 installation.

G

[SingleEyePhotos]

Originally Posted by GRiker

I just found an indexing bug in the catalog generator, and missed the release window, so catalog generation will have some problems in 0.7.36 until I submit a patch for the next release. Sorry.

G

I am also getting an error when trying to create a catalog in the 0.7.36 release. I'm running Win XP SP3. Here is the error message:

ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Generate catalog

Generate catalog
Catalog_EPUB_MOBI(): Generating mobi for kindle_dx in GUI environment
connected_device: 'None'
book count: 5
Sections: Authors, Titles, Genres, Descriptions
opts:
authorClip: 100
catalog_title: u'My Books'
connected_kindle: False
descriptionClip: 380
exclude_book_marker: u':'
exclude_genre: u'\\[.+\\]'
exclude_tags: u'~,Catalog'
header_note_source_field: u'#collection'
merge_comments: '::True'
output_profile: 'kindle_dx'
read_book_marker: u'tag:+'
search_text: None
sort_by: None
sort_descriptions_by_author: True
sync: True
thumb_width: '1.00'
wishlist_tag: u'Wishlist'
invalidating cache at 'C:\Documents and Settings\Penny\Application Data\calibre\caches\catalog\thumbs.zip'
thumb_width changed: -1.00" => 1.00"
Python function terminated unexpectedly
[Error 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process: u'C:\\Documents and Settings\\Penny\\Application Data\\calibre\\caches\\catalog\\thumbs.zip' (Error Code: 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 103, in main
File "site.py", line 85, in run_entry_point
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 107, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 61, in gui_catalog
File "site-packages\calibre\library\catalog.py", line 5014, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\library\catalog.py", line 1009, in __init__
WindowsError: [Error 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process: u'C:\\Documents and Settings\\Penny\\Application Data\\calibre\\caches\\catalog\\thumbs.zip'

I've tried rebooting to ensure that no other programs are using that file, and Calibre is the only program open at the time. I was doing a test catalog on the new functionality and was only using 5 books instead of the full library for the test.

Thank you for your help.

[GRiker]

@SingleEyePhotos:
Please do the following:
- With no instances of calibre running, delete the thumbs.zip file
- Start calibre again, try building the catalog again
- Report the results, including the version of Windows you're running

G

[beckywc]

I Did as you suggested and it worked. Running windows vista.

Thanks

[GRiker]

As noted here and in another thread, there were some Windows-only problems with catalog generation in 0.7.36. They should be resolved in the next release.

G

[chilady1]

Thanks G - was just coming in here to look for help on generating a catalog and lo and behold, the message was already posted regarding this. Will wait until next release for fix. Thanks again.

[SingleEyePhotos]

Originally Posted by GRiker

@SingleEyePhotos:
Please do the following:
- With no instances of calibre running, delete the thumbs.zip file
- Start calibre again, try building the catalog again
- Report the results, including the version of Windows you're running

G

Thank you, that did the trick! Love the new options for the Catalog.