08-12-2012, 04:35 PM | #1 |
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Feature request during conversion
Hello all, I am new to this forum, this is my first post here.
I have been using Calibre 0.8.62 for some months now, and think it is great. However, when converting a bunch of books from PDF to MOBI, the pdf to html converter crashes from time to time. I understand new programs have issues and I can deal with the crashing, I assume the designers will fix it some day. But, the entire queue halts and waits for me to click OK on a popup message telling me it crashed. It would be better if the queue scheduler could continue to convert other books while the error message was displayed. I had 200 books to convert, started it and went to bed, and the next morning I found it had crashed and after dismissing the error message found I still had 192 books to go (so much for letting the computer work for me while I sleep, I have to babysit it.) Just my 2 cents for today, Keep up the good work, you guys rock. Mark. |
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08-13-2012, 03:47 AM | #3 |
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There is no way to keep jobs going after a crash, because windows, in its infinite wisdom decides to freeze the process in place while displaying the crash notification. For non-crash errors (or for crashes on non windows platforms), the queue manager will continue converting.
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08-18-2012, 04:56 PM | #4 |
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Hi, and thanks for the replys,
I sidestepped the issue, here is a workaround. I have a program called "WinBatch" from WindowWare (old copy) I simply wrote a small batch file that looks for the windows and closes them, thus: Code:
WinError = "pdftohtml.exe" calError = "Conversion Error" :checkloop if WinExist(WinError) then sendkeysto(WinError,"D") if WinExist(calError) then sendkeysto(calError,"~") delay(3) goto checkloop dwanthny: One of the popups is from Windows saying... pdftohtml crashed and needs to close... and as kovidgoyal reports, yes, the program halts till I get rid of that Windows popup. The second popup reads "Conversion Error" "Failed: convert book nn of xx (title of book)" It looks like the conversion halts during this message too. kovidgoyal: Thanks, I do have an Ubuntu system, maybe I will try to install Calibre there to test. Mark. |
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