Books Won't Open - MacOS Catalina - Apple Books can’t access your library.

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enviroedge Author

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Books Won't Open - MacOS Catalina - Apple Books can’t access your library.

MacOS Books won't open:

Apple Books can’t access your library.

Make sure the disk containing your library is connected, then click Try Again.

Library Location: /Users/myusername/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks

You can also reset your library, then sign into view and re-download your purchased books.

This happened a few weeks ago and the following worked:

turning Books off in iCloud and restarting.

turning Books on in iCloud again.

This time it hasn't helped.

Any ideas?

Cheers Rob

MacBook Air 11", macOS 10.15

Posted on Nov 23, 2019 4:49 PM

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Answer 1

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enviroedge Author

Level 1

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Nov 28, 2019 12:24 PM in response to enviroedge

I solved this by deleting all files in "Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks" folder and restarting.

(Library is hidden in home directory Shift+Command+. to see hidden files and navigate there

or in Finder use GO > Go to Folder > Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBook)

I hope this helps someone else.

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Answer 2

Docdigit

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Dec 1, 2019 6:24 AM in response to enviroedge

I followed this up to the point where you delete everything in /iBook. Instead, I checked the Downloads, Temporary, and Updates folders and deleted only what was in there. That fixed it.

Thanks for the lead!

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