From 5a9097f5c014290dcffdce45d88783eaefe29230 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:05:36 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 src/calibre/libunrar.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/libunrar.py b/src/calibre/libunrar.py
index d0e48034b5..2cebd40a79 100644
--- a/src/calibre/libunrar.py
+++ b/src/calibre/libunrar.py
@@ -270,18 +270,21 @@ def extract_member(path, match=re.compile(r'\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png)\s*$', re.I),
                 return path, open(path, 'rb').read()
 
 def extract_first_alphabetically(path):
+    remove_path = False
     if hasattr(path, 'read'):
         data = path.read()
         with PersistentTemporaryFile('.rar') as f:
             f.write(data)
         path = f.name
+        remove_path = True
 
     names_ = [x for x in names(path) if os.path.splitext(x)[1][1:].lower() in
             ('png', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'gif')]
     names_.sort()
     ans = extract_member(path, name=names_[0], match=None)
     try:
-        os.remove(path)
+        if remove_path:
+            os.remove(path)
     except:
         pass
     return ans