ereader2html error: IOError [Errno 13] Permission denied

[nanster]

Hi-

I am a newbie to this forum and was wondering if someone out there could possibly help me. When I try to run ereader2html.py to take the DRM off a .pdb book, this is what happens:

C:\Python26>python ereader2html.py outlander.pdb Outlander "My name" 12345678
eReader2Html v0.09. Copyright (c) 2008 The Dark Reverser
Processing...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python26\ereader2html.py", line 884, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "C:\Python26\ereader2html.py", line 870, in main
    convertEreaderToHtml(infile, name, cc, outdir)
  File "C:\Python26\ereader2html.py", line 822, in convertEreaderToHtml
    file(os.path.join(imagedirpath, name), 'wb').write(contents)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'Outlander\\images/'

It looks to me that for some reason I am not being allowed access to the "Outlander" directory that I created for my files. Does anyone know why this has happened and what i can do to fix it? Thanks in advance for your suggestions!

[any ANONYMOUS forum user]

Similar problem was solved by the following

you did not properly select the file to be converted (the *.pdb file) the first time and so it tried to read from the eReader_Tools directory itself and failed with an I/O error.

The hint was here in the log …

PDB Path = “C:\Users\Me\Documents\Downloads\eReader_Tool s”

This should be pointing at the *.pdb book to be converted not at the eReader_Tools directory.

Which in turn caused this error:

IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: ‘C:\\Users\\Marcy\\Documents\\Downloads\\eReader_T ools’

[nanster]

Sorry...but I don't understand how to correct my error by what you told me to do. I am a little "challenged" working with scripts.

[any ANONYMOUS forum user]

Originally Posted by nanster

Sorry...but I don't understand how to correct my error by what you told me to do. I am a little "challenged" working with scripts.

Create a new folder like C:\ebooks

Place ereader2html.py and outlander.pdb into the directory.

The open command prompt

Type

C:

and hit Enter

Type

cd \ebooks

Then run

ereader2html.py outlander.pdb Outlander "My name" 12345678

[nanster]

I did exactly what you said to do, and I got the same error message. I tried it on two different computers with the same result, as well. Any other ideas???

[any ANONYMOUS forum user]

Originally Posted by nanster

I did exactly what you said to do, and I got the same error message. I tried it on two different computers with the same result, as well. Any other ideas???

Try to change the outdir:

ereader2html.py outlander.pdb temp "My name" 12345678

or

ereader2html.py outlander.pdb c:\ereader\temp\ "My name" 12345678

Also have you tried to use erdr2pml.py and xpml2xhml.py instead of ereader2html.py?

[nanster]

Very frustrating! I have tried all of your suggestions - even erdr2pml.py, and the outcome is the same every time. Is it inpossible to take the DRM protection off of some books???? I can't imagine what the problem is. Any other suggestions? Thanks again fro trying to help!