Error 123, help!

[Dui]

Hello,

I am using Windows 7 and it had worked fine with Calibre for a quite long time.

Since a couple of days ago, when I try to convert or remove new files, I came to get the same error message and can't do anything. What can be the problem? Please help me!


The error message is:

calibre, version 2.11.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>error</b>123, 'CreateFile', '?? ??, ???? ?? ?? ?? ??? ??? ???????.')

calibre 2.11 isfrozen: True is64bit: False
Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 Windows ('32bit', 'WindowsPE')
32bit process running on 64bit windows
('Windows', '7', '6.1.7601')
Python 2.7.8
Windows: ('7', '6.1.7601', 'SP1', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Successfully initialized third party plugins: DeDRM
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\single.py", line 272, in accept
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\metadata.py", line 236, in commit
File "site-packages\calibre\db\legacy.py", line 465, in set_metadata
File "site-packages\calibre\db\cache.py", line 57, in call_func_with_lock
File "site-packages\calibre\db\cache.py", line 1207, in set_metadata
File "site-packages\calibre\db\cache.py", line 1202, in set_field
File "site-packages\calibre\db\cache.py", line 1007, in set_field
File "site-packages\calibre\db\backend.py", line 1409, in windows_check_if_files_in_use
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\filenames.py", line 348, in __init__
error: (123, 'CreateFile', '?? ??, ???? ?? ?? ?? ??? ??? ???????.')

[BetterRed]

Interesting, that's same error as in this thread ==>> Can't delete books from my library

@Dui - in that the instance the problem was solved by the user moving library from drive d: to drive c: - IMO not an entirely satisfactory solution, because it doesn't explain why...

BR

[chaley]

Perhaps accented characters in the volume label?

[kovidgoyal]

This will be because the path to the library contains characters that cannot be represented in the mbcs encoding (many windows systems use a non utf-8 encoding as the mbcs encoding). The fix is to simply move the library to a simple path like c:\library

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by chaley

Perhaps accented characters in the volume label?

That was my first thought with Petkov's thread - so I relabelled a thumb drive as Bibliothèque - no problems converting or deleting in a library folder called 'Library'. I couldn't re-label to a non Latin string unless I was willing to tweak Windows languages, which I wasn't.

When I changed the library folder name from 'Library' to 'библиотека' I got the reported error - as expected.

BR

[kovidgoyal]

This commit should help, though I cant test it as I dont have any windows systems with non-utf-8 mbcs

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...6dccc863ccced0

[Dui]

I am sorry for replying this late.

Thank you so much for all of your help! After I have switched the main language of the operating system, it began working fine!

Thank you, thank you all!