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Old 04-03-2009, 01:37 AM   #1
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Mac Crashing Problem
I love Calibre but having a problem with it on my Intel Mac running the latest OS X software. What happens is that if Cailbre is doing something intensive such as batch converting lit files to mobi it will crash. But from the usual dialog box to relaunch or ignore I cannot relaunch it as I get an error message that another user is running the program. As I am the only user on my Mac I don't see anyway out of this other than to restart the computer. Is anyone else reporting this happening? Any ideas how I could restart after such a crash without rebooting?
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Old 04-03-2009, 02:13 AM   #2
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try deleting ~/.calibre_calibre GUI.lock
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Old 04-03-2009, 03:41 PM   #3
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Ummmm, where can I find that file? Doesn't appear to be in the app support part of the library under calibre...??
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Old 04-03-2009, 03:43 PM   #4
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Ummmm, where can I find that file? Doesn't appear to be in the app support part of the library under calibre...??
~/

indicates your home directory. However, any files that start with a . are hidden. So, you can't see them in Finder unless you enable it.

Open your terminal window and type:

cd

then press enter. Then type

rm ~/.calibre_calibre GUI.lock

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Old 04-03-2009, 03:44 PM   #5
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try deleting ~/.calibre_calibre GUI.lock
Really there is a space in the file name?

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Old 04-03-2009, 04:44 PM   #6
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I get no such file or directory....

Here's what I did:

Macintosh:~ neilshapiro$ cd
Macintosh:~ neilshapiro$ rm ~/.calibre_calibre GUI.lock
rm: /Users/neilshapiro/.calibre_calibre: No such file or directory
rm: GUI.lock: No such file or directory
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I get no such file or directory....
do an

ls -la

and see if it is listed.

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Old 04-03-2009, 08:35 PM   #8
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I get no such file or directory....

Here's what I did:

Macintosh:~ neilshapiro$ cd
Macintosh:~ neilshapiro$ rm ~/.calibre_calibre GUI.lock
rm: /Users/neilshapiro/.calibre_calibre: No such file or directory
rm: GUI.lock: No such file or directory
You need to put quotation marks around it as it has a space in the name
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Old 04-04-2009, 12:54 AM   #9
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Thank, Kovid I guess that worked. Entered it with the quote marks and terminal went back to the prompt without and error message so I assume that means it processed. Restarted Calibre and so far no crashes. Sorry but I have little idea what Terminal does or how. It's amazing I got the various Python scripts to work.
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OK, can you tell me exatctly what to put quotes around or how to type it in? I'm having a really difficult time trying to fix this after searching how to on the internet. Thanks
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