IBooks Author won't open

I purchased, downloaded and installed iBooks Author and it will not open. Help!

Have you already tried deleting it and re-downloading? It's a free app.

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IBooks Author won't open a .ibooks file?

I've been messing around creating a textbook, and saved the file to a folder on my hard drive. The extension of the file is .ibooks and I can see that the file is nearly 40 MB, so I know it's right (I put videos and pictures in it).
But now when I go to open the file, I get a dialogue box that says iBooks Author can't open the file?
What gives?
Andrew

Hi there - I have a question about file type and size, and maybe others might want to know about this too:
I'm finishing an ebook I've made using iBooks Author and when I check the file size of the iba file (using Get Info), it says it's 2.14GB, which has me worried as I know the iBookstore accepts only files under 2GB (as well as 2GB being slow to download).
But after reading some comments online I tried saving the file as ibooks, and in this format it's only about 240MB. Which one is the true file size as it will appear on the iBookstore?
I can't seem to open the file with the ibooks extension - is that understandable because, as you said, it's for viewing on the iPad, right?
I really want to hit "publish" this week. Thanks in advance for any replies!

My iBooks Author won't open, can't re-install, won't delete....

It doesn't open, won't un-install. Icon looks suspicious. Can anyone help?
Thank you

Are you unable to drag it from the Applications folder to the trash?

My Ibooks author will not open a file

I have an Ibooks author file that will not open. How can I open the file to edit it?

In that case, if the file isn't locked and/or owned by another user, and you don't see any errors when trying to access it, all I can imagine is that it is somehow broken/corrupted.
If you don't have a backup to try instead, you may want to contact Apple for iBA support and see if they can help....that, or walk your MB into the nearest Apple Store and see what they think.
Good luck in any case.

IBooks Author does not open existing ibook

I updated iBooks Author yesterday and saved an existing ibook on my Mac and USB drive. Today morning, the book is refusing to open, displaying a "invalid format" message. The file also apprears to have shrunk in size, from 250mb to 8kb.
Any idea of what happened and how I can resolve this? Or would I have to re-do the whole thing?

I found the answer here. I guess I just didn't dig long enough!
The short answer is that iBooks Author does not output a format that supports iPhone. Use Pages to generate an ePub file that supports iPhone, etc.
See details in the following link:
iBooks Author & iPhone

IBooks Author can't open .iba file, iBooks Author can't open .iba file

The iBook I've been working on won't open anymore. It is stuck on opening with the blue line at 100% in progress. Force quitting, restarting, shutting down have had no effect. Any advice on getting this file to open again? I'd hate to lose all my work on this book. A preview copy still resides on my iPad but the .iba file just won't open.

Do you know how to reinstall iBA?
The ~ as part of the name indicates a version...part of Lion's versioning feature. Those used to be hidden before 10.7.3 - now it seems to be a bug that you can see them.

Ibook author loading, save, open and update issue

When we create the ibook author file with 30 pages the systme gets too slow, since it took cache file within the recovery folder. Also when it take more time while save, open and update process. Curent file size is 169 MB (Minimac 10.7 with 2GB RAM and ibook author version is 1.1)
Can you any one investigate this issue and help me how to remove this cache file and make the ibook author file is fast?

I'd suggest to upgrade the ram in your mini to the maximum - low cost and the best thing you can do to improve performance for all apps.
The cache file's purpose is to make things faster....but if a book is corrupted there may be issues using it for editing. You may need to remove resources and re-add to fix - that or make a new book from start.
See this Apple Tech Note:
Optimizing performance in your iBooks Author books [ support.apple.com/kb/HT5117 ]
Good luck.
Ken

HT5557 iBook Author does not open file

A client submit by email a file with extension *.book. I know is an iBook Author file but I don't understand why I cannot open it. Any help will be appreciate it.
Best regards,

So what browser do you use?

HT5901 ibooks author won't delete

Hi,
I deleted a section of text from my ibooks author document, save the document. Reopen it and all is fine, then randomly it keep reinserting the deleted text.
It's really annoying. Has it got something to do with time machine?
Thanks

I also have this problem. I delete the pages and carry on editing a section and occasionally the pages that I'd deleted come back. Annoying is the correct term: it's no disaster, but.

IBooks author: Can't open the file because "index.xml" is missing, please help!,

A project that I was working on yesterday and I didn't close it, today when I wanted to work on it and opened a new page there was a huge X on the page so I decided to quit ibooks then reopen it, saved all my changes first of course, but then when I tried opening it literally 10 seconds later it says the index.xml file is missing, this is my technology project due tomorrow please help!

This or a simmilar problems arose just after the last iBA update. There is a very long thread dealing with this.
I had a similar problems and nothing cured it until I contacted support and they gave me a link to upload to their server, they repaired my file and I downloaded it.
It actually took from start to finish about 2 weeks.
I "huge X" on any page usually indicates an image or similar content is missing.
The usual suggestions are to close everything down and do a re-boot.
I suggest a search of this forum for the thread may be an idea. Try this
https://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?peopleEnabled=true&userID=&containerTy pe=&container=&spotlight=false&q=index.xml+file+is+missing
If you make a copy of your book file and change .iba to .zip, you can open the file and check if the index page really is missing.

IBook (Yosemite) won't open or close. Message "Not Responding" pops up. Icon indicates that it is running.

I'm running Yosemite on my iMac. I tried to open iBooks; the icon appeared on the toolbar only. I tried to close the program and I received a "Not responding" pop up. I'd like to use it if it can be used. Otherwise, close it or get rid of it. Any ideas? Thanks

Please read this whole message before doing anything.
Back up all data.
Quit iBooks if it's running. Test after taking each of the following steps that you haven't already taken. Stop when the problem is resolved. Quit iBooks again before going on to the next step.
Step 1
Hold down the option key and select Go ▹ Library from the Finder menu bar. From the Library folder, move the following item, if it exists, to the Trash:
          Cookies/com.apple.ibooks.cookies
Step 2
Delete this item in the same way:
          Preferences/com.apple.ibooks.plist
Step 3
Delete this item:
          Containers/com.apple.iBooksX
and move this one to the Desktop:
          Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService
Restart the computer. To log out and log back in is not enough—you must restart.
When you launch iBooks, you'll be prompted to reset the library. Confirm. The library will be empty. Rebuild it by downloading your purchases from the iBooks Store and importing any other content you added. You may find the added content in the folder named "com.apple.BKAgentService" that you moved to the Desktop.

IBooks Author do not open my book file: help me!!!

Hi, iBooks does not open my file: I already tried with the various ways explained in the forum, as the makeup of the Zip extension, but I have not solved.
Let me explain:
I worked on my book directly onto a USB stick on a macbook, then I went home and I overwrote the file on my iMac with one of the key: result!?
The file in question does not open, and even that on the stick!
Have you any suggestions please?
My partner has recovered files on your computer with DiskDrill, but iBooks does not open them. He remembers reading that there is someone who is able to send the file to open it, but has not found the message (where there was the email).
Important to me is because I retrieve the text written to the file and the backup I have now is an old version and miss him so much written material (pictures and filming them have).
Can you help me, please?!?
Manuela.
=^__^=

The file in usb is definitely damaged because it is 200 MB compared to around 1 GB it should be.
When I worked with the MacBook directly on usb I think that once the file is damaged during the last save (I did not realize this before).
In iMac I overwrite the original file with that of USB. Result: I have two files of about 200 MB (one in usb and one in iMac) that do not open.
Now I have only an older version that opens but I lack the important text that I wrote later. I retrieved other files previous Iba with the software diskdrill including one from a GB or so and very recently (4 days before) but it does not open.
I'm interested to recover all the possible text from the file iba that I have.
I know the possibility to send at someone to Apple the file groped for a recovery or at least extrapolation of data (I am interested only written texts).
Can you give me please an email to send the file (I send the link to download it)?
Thank you very much!

App Store, Pages, iBooks, Maps won't open in Mavericks

I see I am not alone in having this problem. I'd appreciate any suggestions.

If the Pages app is not in your Applications folder, and if signing out of the App Store and signing back in again won't permit you to reinstall Pages, try the following:
Sign out of the App Store, then quit the App Store.
Select (triple-click to select the entire line), then control-click, and from the contextual menu that appears select Services > Reveal in Finder:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.storeagent.plist
Drag the highlighted file to the Desktop.
Repeat with the following two lines
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.appstore.plist
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.storeagent
Open the App Store again, select the Purchases list, sign in, and attempt to install Pages again.

IBook app won't open

iBook tells me to try later. I tried installing an update and it won't update. Any ideas?

1. from the Home screen, double tap the Home button -> hold down the iBooks icon until it jiggles -> press the red icon in the upper left corner -> now try reopening iBooks.
2. using steps from 1 to close iBooks, but Don't reopen iBooks. perform a Reset: Hold down the Home and Sleep/Wake buttons for ~10 seconds, ignore the slide to power off, the iPad will then reset. Now try reopening iBooks. Note: no data is lost in performing a Reset

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My books will not open on my iPad 2. I can see them all, but cannot open them. This happened after the newest update. I tried deleting the app and resetting my iPad.
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