Comment 4 for bug 1740460

Sounds good! Love the software. Thanks for all that you do on it!

On Dec 29, 2017 9:00 AM, "Kovid Goyal" <email address hidden> wrote:

> WEll, I've made a change for the next release that causes the editor to
> refuse to save books where critical files have been deleted and got it
> to use the cache directory rather than the temp directory, so that
> should fix it.
>
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> Title:
> Edit Book feature results in error after previously editing
> successfully
>
> Status in calibre:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Windows 10 Home
> Calibre version 3.14.0
>
> I'm not sure what causes this, and not sure how to reproduce it. I've
> spent hours successfully using the "Edit Book" feature to modify an
> .EPUB, and then randomly, after closing the program and re-opening it
> at a later time, I'll get the error below when I try to perform "Edit
> Book" again. I've tried re-installing Calibre, creating a copy of the
> library and re-importing it--all of which result in the same error.
> This is now the 2nd time I've applied revisions to a 103k word novel
> and can't access the data.
>
> calibre, version 3.14.0
> ERROR: Failed to open book: Failed to open book, click "Show details"
> for more information.
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\tweak_book\job.py", line 35, in run
> File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\tweak_book\boss.py", line 59, in
> get_container
> File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\polish\container.py", line
> 1497, in get_container
> File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\polish\container.py", line
> 1155, in __init__
> InvalidEpub: No META-INF/container.xml in epub
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