ERROR: Unhandled exception: (MemoryError)

[20Gt]

Calibre usually works just fine.

I'm trying to help my Uncle turn his books into ebooks and I get this error when I try to import this large html file
The file I'm importing is very large (178mb)

calibre, version 2.15.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>MemoryError</b>:

calibre 2.15 isfrozen: True is64bit: False
Windows-8-6.2.9200 Windows ('32bit', 'WindowsPE')
32bit process running on 64bit windows
('Windows', '8', '6.2.9200')
Python 2.7.8
Windows: ('8', '6.2.9200', '', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Successfully initialized third party plugins: Databazeknih
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\tweak_book\boss.py", line 1244, in edit_file_requested
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\tweak_book\boss.py", line 1214, in edit_file
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\polish\container.py", line 504, in raw_data
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\polish\container.py", line 439, in decode
File "encodings\utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
MemoryError

[BetterRed]

@20Gt - looks like you ran out of memory, see that last line

What OS are you using?

If Windows then:

is it 32bit or 64 bit Windows,

if 64 bit are you using 64 bit calibre, if not try it

What is the source of the 178mb of HTML? I'm guessing that your uncle didn't hand craft it in a text editor

BR

[eschwartz]

A 178 MB file is pretty large... for an HTML file, which is plain text!

Try splitting up the file into multiple logical chunks (by chapter?) and importing them separately.
Alternatively, where did you get that file from? If it was a Word export-as-filtered-html, don't do that -- the Editor can directly import DOCX.

The Editor's DOCX conversion is far better than the trash MS Word calls filtered HTML.

...

Another thing, you are using a 32-bit calibre on 64-bit Windows. Do yourself a favor and uninstall calibre, then install the 64-bit version.
(None of your settings will be lost.)

64-bit calibre can access more RAM than 32-bit calibre -- which is good when you are dealing with an Out Of Memory error!

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@20Gt - looks like you ran out of memory, see that last line

What OS are you using?

If Windows then:

is it 32bit or 64 bit Windows,

if 64 bit are you using 64 bit calibre, if not try it

Ahhh, you ninjaed me while I was drafting a response myself.

See the lines in the error output that say:

calibre 2.15 isfrozen: True is64bit: False
Windows-8-6.2.9200 Windows ('32bit', 'WindowsPE')
32bit process running on 64bit windows
('Windows', '8', '6.2.9200')

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Ahhh, you ninjaed me while I was drafting a response myself.

See the lines in the error output that says:

calibre 2.15 isfrozen: True is64bit: False
Windows-8-6.2.9200 Windows ('32bit', 'WindowsPE')
32bit process running on 64bit windows
('Windows', '8', '6.2.9200')

- that all went straight past me - watching a video editor doing its thing

BR