Problem generating catalog - help! ><

[tbooks]

Hello!

For some reason a few days ago I started having trouble generating ePub catalogs in Calibre. This happened after I left it running overnight to create a particularly big catalog. Previously I just made separate catalogs for each author in small bunches.

Does anyone know how I can fix this??

Thanks in advance!!! ^^

Error details below:

"calibre, version 0.8.57
ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Generate catalog

Generate catalog
Python function terminated unexpectedly: Zipfile size would require ZIP64 extensions
Sections: Descriptions
Catalog_EPUB_MOBI(): Generating epub for nook in GUI environment
connected_device: 'The Nook' #3022xxxxxxxxxxxx
mount point: /Volumes/NOOK/My Files
mount point: /Volumes/32 GB/
book count: 8
opts:
authorClip: 100
catalog_title: u'Marliss Melton Catalog'
connected_kindle: False
descriptionClip: 380
exclude_book_marker: u':'
exclude_genre: u'\\[[\\w ]*\\]'
exclude_tags: u'~,Catalog'
header_note_source_field: ''
merge_comments: '::True'
output_profile: 'nook'
read_book_marker: u'tag:+'
search_text: None
sort_by: None
sort_descriptions_by_author: True
sync: True
thumb_width: u'1.00'
wishlist_tag: u'Wishlist'
existing thumb cache at /Users/Teresa/Library/Preferences/calibre/caches/catalog/thumbs.zip, cached_thumb_width: 1.00"
Begin catalog source generation
DPI = 167; thumbnail dimensions: 167 x 222
*** Invalid cover file for 'Don't Let Go'***
using default cover for 'Don't Let Go' (22094)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/Python/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 147, in main
return run_entry_point()
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/Python/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 116, in run_entry_point
return getattr(pmod, func)()
File "site-packages/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py", line 191, in main
File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 68, in gui_catalog
File "site-packages/calibre/library/catalogs/epub_mobi.py", line 306, in run
File "site-packages/calibre/library/catalogs/epub_mobi_builder.py", line 487, in buildSources
File "site-packages/calibre/library/catalogs/epub_mobi_builder.py", line 2049, in generateThumbnails
File "site-packages/calibre/library/catalogs/epub_mobi_builder.py", line 3823, in generateThumbnail
File "site-packages/calibre/utils/zipfile.py", line 1281, in writestr
File "site-packages/calibre/utils/zipfile.py", line 1172, in _writecheck
calibre.utils.zipfile.LargeZipFile: Zipfile size would require ZIP64 extensions"

[GRiker]

The error indicates that the size of the compressed file used to store the cover thumbnails would be too large to fit in a 32-bit space. That's a *very* large catalog. Performance would be slow to sluggish, if you could load it at all.

How many books are you trying to catalog?

You can try reducing the size of the thumbnails, eliminating the thumbnails, or (more sensibly) go back to building smaller catalogs of sections of your collection.

G

[tbooks]

Thanks for the reply! Actually, I have been trying to catalog a smaller number of books ever since trying to catalog the large # failed. The large # by the way was about a 180+ books or so... but now even when I try to catalog a few books or even one book I get the same error :/.

[tbooks]

Actually, I just deleted the "thumbs.zip" file that was in "/Users/Teresa/Library/Preferences/calibre/caches/catalog/thumbs.zip" and when I tried generating a catalog again it worked! Yay!

Sorry about the trouble, and thanks for your reply and help!

[theducks]

Originally Posted by tbooks

Actually, I just deleted the "thumbs.zip" file that was in "/Users/Teresa/Library/Preferences/calibre/caches/catalog/thumbs.zip" and when I tried generating a catalog again it worked! Yay!

Sorry about the trouble, and thanks for your reply and help!

FWIW Very large is closer 10,000 or more.
You have a very small library

[krakenmoth]

Hi,
I've seen that others have had this problem but the solution wasn't shown
Here is the error log

Spoiler:

calibre, version 0.8.61
ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Generate catalogue

Generate catalogue
Sections: Recently Added
Catalog_EPUB_MOBI(): Generating epub for generic_eink in GUI environment
connected_device: 'None'
book count: 3225
opts:
authorClip: 100
catalog_title: u'Authors & Titles'
connected_kindle: False
descriptionClip: 380
exclude_book_marker: u':'
exclude_genre: u'\\[.+\\]'
exclude_tags: u'~,Catalogue'
header_note_source_field: ''
merge_comments: ':before:True'
output_profile: 'generic_eink'
read_book_marker: u'#genre:+'
search_text: None
sort_by: None
sort_descriptions_by_author: True
sync: False
thumb_width: u'1.90'
wishlist_tag: u'Wishlist'
Begin catalog source generation
DPI = 168; thumbnail dimensions: 320 x 425
Completed catalog source generation

InputFormatPlugin: HTML Input running
on C:\Users\SEALOR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_0.8.6 1_tmp_xn2scp\d9v6tu_epub_mobi_catalog\Catalog.opf
Parsing all content...
OPF contains invalid tours section
Python function terminated unexpectedly
xmlParseEntityRef: no name, line 5, column 13 (Error Code: 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 132, in main
File "site.py", line 109, in run_entry_point
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 192, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 68, in gui_catalog
File "site-packages\calibre\library\catalogs\epub_mobi.py", line 356, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 979, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 208, in __call__
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plugins\html_in put.py", line 83, in convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 1143, in create_oebbook
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\reader.py", line 69, in __call__
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\reader.py", line 118, in _read_opf
File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 2743, in lxml.etree.fromstring (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:52665)
File "parser.pxi", line 1573, in lxml.etree._parseMemoryDocument (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:79932)
File "parser.pxi", line 1445, in lxml.etree._parseDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:78709)
File "parser.pxi", line 920, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseUnicodeDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:75083)
File "parser.pxi", line 564, in lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:71739)
File "parser.pxi", line 645, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:72614)
File "parser.pxi", line 585, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:71955)
lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError: xmlParseEntityRef: no name, line 5, column 13

I copied the library to another location but same error.
I tried removing thumbs.zip to no effect.
Clearly I have either bad data or bad fingers but I don't know where to look.
Help ? Please ?
TIA

[GRiker]

It appears that you removed the section of the log that might have contained some clues.

My best guess is that you have some tags/genres that are somehow causing problems.

G