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Just reporting in that Method 2 on the first page worked for me with Windows 10. I had gotten a KFX file for the first time today. Calibre directed me to this thread. I made the change using the command line (yes, the .xxx is correct). Then I had to delete the book that was already in on my hard drive as shown in Kindle and re-download it.
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I did rename renderer-test in the package, restarted Kindle, and downloaded a book, which it opened. No files at all appeared in the "My Kindle Content" folder in the Library, however. |
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If you did exactly that and it didn't work, I'd guess this workaround does not work on 1.20.2 (I haven't had time to try it. If I get a chance tomorrow, I'll give it a go tomorrow and report back.) |
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Why would renaming the file not work on OS X? It would mean Kindle would not find it and thus not use it. Plus, you then don't have to deal with permissions.
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sudo chmod -x /Applications/Kindle.app/Contents/MacOS/renderer-test (your accounts might not have the necessary rights by defaults, the sudo command will give you higher privileges) |
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I don't know enough about Macs to know why, but it doesn't work. So a different workaround was discovered for Kindle for Mac.
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Check the permissions. Maybe you don't have the permission to change the filename. If that's the case, change the permission so you can rename and rename.
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I updated K4Mac to 1.20.2 (47082), planning to test the chmod workaround to avoid KFX. But before I applied it, I downloaded a book to see what KFX looks like on download. Instead, I got AZW3.
I deleted all books in My Kindle Content folder, then re-downloaded a dozen books with Enhanced Typesetting. I received AZW3 every time. My K4Mac 1.20.2 seems incapable of giving me a KFX book. I then used the chmod command and got the same result enaid1 did (unable to change file mode, operation not permitted), so Amazon seems to have altered the permissions to block this workaround. I then used sudo chmod. I didn't get an error message, but I have no way of testing whether this blocks KFX, since I was getting AZW3 for all my books even before using the chmod workaround. Last edited by odamizu; 07-04-2017 at 04:55 PM. Reason: clarity & brevity |
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