Jeff Scoggins
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Q: What can I do if I have lost my .iba file?

Apparently I don't have an .iba file in order update my published book. What are my options?

 

Jeff

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Sep 19, 2013 9:04 AM

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Jeff Scoggins

Q: What can I do if I have lost my .iba file?

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  • by K T,

    K T K T Sep 19, 2013 9:13 AM in response to Jeff Scoggins
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    Sep 19, 2013 9:13 AM in response to Jeff Scoggins

    While you can extract some of the assets from your .ibooks file (it's just a zip file), you'd still have to make another book and put them in manually. If you did manage to get that far, I'm not sure the delivery process would accept it as an update, tho.

     

    You may want to contact Apple support before you put in all that time.

     

    And as always, have a tested and reliable backup in place when working.

  • by Jeff Scoggins,

    Jeff Scoggins Jeff Scoggins Sep 19, 2013 9:16 AM in response to K T
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    Sep 19, 2013 9:16 AM in response to K T

    I guess I shouldn't have said I lost the .iba file. I never had one. Somehow I managed to publish my book to the iBookstore without going through iBooks Author. I used Sigil to create the ePub file and published it. Now I can't figure out how to update it without using Author.

  • by K T,

    K T K T Sep 19, 2013 9:20 AM in response to Jeff Scoggins
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    Sep 19, 2013 9:20 AM in response to Jeff Scoggins

    I don't see what this has to do with iBooks Author in that example, sorry.

     

    You might want to try the Delivery forums instead.

     

    Good luck in any case.

  • by Jeff Scoggins,

    Jeff Scoggins Jeff Scoggins Sep 19, 2013 10:00 AM in response to Jeff Scoggins
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    Sep 19, 2013 10:00 AM in response to Jeff Scoggins

    This is my ignorance of how the system works. Apple support directed me in the proper direction. Thanks for trying to help me.

  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke Sep 20, 2013 3:02 AM in response to Jeff Scoggins
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    Sep 20, 2013 3:02 AM in response to Jeff Scoggins

    Only iBooks Author creates an .iba file.  You didn't use it, so you could never have had one.  You need to find whatever it is that Sigil uses to save its projects before it converts things to epub.  Ask in the Sigil forums