Converting extremely large HTML files

dstone · 09-28-2017, 10:44 AM

I've been trying to convert the documentation for PHP to AZW3, but I've run into a bit of a snag. The HTML for the doc. is quite large (56Mb). I've tried using both the split file version (many HTML files) as well as the single file version. Ultimately Calibre just hangs at 67% (and I've left it running for 24 hours). I'm wondering if this is beyond what Calibre is capable of handling. I've looked through the forum, and the only thing I found about large HTML is to split them, but I've already tried that route.

The system is an I5, 6Gb memory running Win/64 10 and Calibre 3.8 64-bit.

dstone · 09-29-2017, 01:52 PM

Just for grins, I installed Calibre on a Linux box. This time it ran for 90 minutes but the conversion failed. It got as far as Structure, and it looks like it failed just before going into the Processing phase. The log shows it did parse everything, and it did detect the last chapter of the CHM file. So this is farther than I got on a Windows box, but still not quite there.

kovidgoyal · 09-30-2017, 10:11 PM

If the conversion is running, just let it run. Pathological cases have been known to take 48 hours to convert.

09-28-2017, 10:44 AM	#1
dstone Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2017 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Converting extremely large HTML files I've been trying to convert the documentation for PHP to AZW3, but I've run into a bit of a snag. The HTML for the doc. is quite large (56Mb). I've tried using both the split file version (many HTML files) as well as the single file version. Ultimately Calibre just hangs at 67% (and I've left it running for 24 hours). I'm wondering if this is beyond what Calibre is capable of handling. I've looked through the forum, and the only thing I found about large HTML is to split them, but I've already tried that route. The system is an I5, 6Gb memory running Win/64 10 and Calibre 3.8 64-bit.

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09-29-2017, 01:52 PM	#2
dstone Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2017 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Just for grins, I installed Calibre on a Linux box. This time it ran for 90 minutes but the conversion failed. It got as far as Structure, and it looks like it failed just before going into the Processing phase. The log shows it did parse everything, and it did detect the last chapter of the CHM file. So this is farther than I got on a Windows box, but still not quite there.

09-30-2017, 10:11 PM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,860 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	If the conversion is running, just let it run. Pathological cases have been known to take 48 hours to convert.

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