From ddce60ac90e8f5259653b7f1591f4458a5cdb418 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 09:12:31 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 src/calibre/utils/filenames.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/utils/filenames.py b/src/calibre/utils/filenames.py
index f031362d39..a4c9e35c3e 100644
--- a/src/calibre/utils/filenames.py
+++ b/src/calibre/utils/filenames.py
@@ -187,7 +187,11 @@ def case_preserving_open_file(path, mode='wb', mkdir_mode=0777):
         os.fsync(ans.fileno())
 
         cl = fname.lower()
-        candidates = [c for c in os.listdir(cpath) if c.lower() == cl]
+        try:
+            candidates = [c for c in os.listdir(cpath) if c.lower() == cl]
+        except EnvironmentError:
+            # The containing directory, somehow disappeared?
+            candidates = []
         if len(candidates) == 1:
             fpath = os.path.join(cpath, candidates[0])
         else: