| 2015-01-07 19:58:48 |
claas |
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I tried to do the following on 2 different Macs and the same result:
Debug log attached; I could provide both ePub files since I took them for testing from http://gutenberg.org
1. Import an ePub into iBooks 1.1 on Mac OS X Yosemite latest Version but not Beta. Calibre 2.15
2. Connect a folder or directly take the ePub file which is in the iBooks Library and import it into calibre
3. Then following error appeared:
calibre, version 2.15.0
WARNING: Errors while adding: There were problems adding some files, click "Show details" for more information
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Failed to add the file /Users/username/Downloads/4C723FB1615B399DD71076C8078F5BEA.epub to the book: /Users/username/Downloads/4C723FB1615B399DD71076C8078F5BEA
With error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/add.py", line 396, in add_formats
File "site-packages/calibre/db/cache.py", line 1335, in add_format
File "site-packages/calibre/startup.py", line 183, in local_open
IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: u'/Users/username/Downloads/4C723FB1615B399DD71076C8078F5BEA.epub'
4. If I tried to import the original ePub, not imported into iBooks, then it worked without a problem.
Somehow iBook is converting the ePub file. Have you heard about this and do you know how to solve the problem?
The file gets even 3 times the size after importing into iBook then the original ePub.
Would be great to have some help.
If you need more information please let me know
Thanks.
Claas. |
I tried to do the following on 2 different Macs and the same result:
Debug log attached; I could provide both ePub files since I took them for testing from http://gutenberg.org
1. Import an ePub into iBooks 1.1 on Mac OS X Yosemite latest Version but not Beta. Calibre 2.15
2. Connect a folder or directly take the ePub file which is in the iBooks Library and import it into calibre
3. Then following error appeared:
calibre, version 2.15.0
WARNING: Errors while adding: There were problems adding some files, click "Show details" for more information
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Failed to add the file /Users/username/Downloads/4C723FB1615B399DD71076C8078F5BEA.epub to the book: /Users/username/Downloads/4C723FB1615B399DD71076C8078F5BEA
With error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/add.py", line 396, in add_formats
File "site-packages/calibre/db/cache.py", line 1335, in add_format
File "site-packages/calibre/startup.py", line 183, in local_open
IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: u'/Users/username/Downloads/4C723FB1615B399DD71076C8078F5BEA.epub'
4. If I tried to import the original ePub, not imported into iBooks, then it worked without a problem.
Somehow iBook is converting the ePub file. Have you heard about this and do you know how to solve the problem?
The file gets even 3 times the size after importing into iBook then the original ePub.
Would be great to have some help.
If you need more information please let me know
Thanks.
Claas.
PS:
I just ran a ls -la on that directory and see what:
drwxr-xr-x@ 5 claas staff 170 7 Jan 19:45 4C723FB1615B399DD71076C8078F5BEA.epub
It's indeed a directory, just the OS GUI wants to tell me it's a normal ePub by the extension and the behavior of the supposed opening possibility in other applications.
A quote from this page: http://www.robertsetiadi.net/getting-our-books-back-itunes-yosemite/
"To make things worse, iBooks unzipped the EPUB files into folders. In case you didn’t know, EPUB format is actually a compressed file that contains structures of files and folders inside. Storing those books in uncompressed format means: it takes more space."
So the only workaround might be a plugin creating again real epubs from the content of the folders I assume. |
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