Personal Book trouble

Here's a builder screen:

As you can see I last successfully built this book March 27, 2017.

When I click on Open:

When I try to build the book:

This is the error log:

I get the same results with almost every personal book that I've tried this with so far. I think out of about ten I tried two opened.

Here it is:

[Info] Starting build for PBB:efed307a3af34b088bec590c2c2533a6
[Info] Converting
[Info] Converting C:\Users\markn\Documents\Word\3678.ESVSB Charts for notes.docx
[Info] Compiling
[Error] Article 'D1_footnote-1' has no content; articles cannot be empty.
[Error] The Compile Failed
[Error] Error while building book: Error compiling resource.
[Error] Exception: LDLS4.Panels.PersonalBookBuilderPanel.PersonalBookBuilderException: Error compiling resource.
at LDLS4.Panels.PersonalBookBuilderPanel.PersonalBookConverter.CompileResource(LicenseManager licenseManager, String manifest, ResourceDocumentData metadata, IPersonalBookBuildLog buildLog, TempFiles tempFiles, IWorkState workState)
at LDLS4.Panels.PersonalBookBuilderPanel.PersonalBookConverter.<CreatePersonalBookWork>d__2.MoveNext()
at Libronix.Utility.Threading.AsyncWorkerTask`1.EnumMoveNext()
at Libronix.Utility.Threading.AsyncWorkerTask`1.EnumMoveNextWithCatch()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
at Libronix.Utility.Threading.AsyncWorkItem.Verify()
at LDLS4.Panels.PersonalBookBuilderPanel.PersonalBookViewModel.<CreatePersonalBookWork>d__137.MoveNext()

I must have a lot of the same problem because it isn't just this PB that won't compile. (The problem could go back to L7 since I haven't looked at most of these in many months.)

It did compile back in March 2017 (L7 days), and as far as I know that compilation was successful. So it seems strange the problem is in the file. But, hey, I don't have any idea what the problem is so you may be right. That doesn't explain the other books that I've tried to open and haven't been successful with.

I must have a lot of the same problem because it isn't just this PB that won't compile. (The problem could go back to L7 since I haven't looked at most of these in many months.)

It did compile back in March 2017 (L7 days), and as far as I know that compilation was successful. So it seems strange the problem is in the file. But, hey, I don't have any idea what the problem is so you may be right. That doesn't explain the other books that I've tried to open and haven't been successful with.

I'm not sure exactly when (not to mention there never was a satisfying answer as to why) Faithlife introduced the change to the PB compiler that breaks the build when it finds "empty paragraphs" e.g. paragraph marks that are formatted with a Heading style. It will break the recompile of nearly all PBs where the source predates that change. This has been discussed in dozens of forum threads.

To clarify my understanding:

• An in-place-upgrade from L7 to L8 should leave all PBs undisturbed. 
• A new installation of L8 will have the PB metadata but will open only those PBs that had been uploaded to the servers, all others will show the  - somewhat misleading - error message "you have no license for this resource". This is not an L8 issue but happens on every new install of Logos, as the compiled resource file simply is not present for the program. To make it available you can do the following:

1. If you still have the L7 installation, you can choose to upload all PBs (note there is a size limit of probably still 20MB of the compiled book, so the button may be greyed out for some overly large PBs). The L8 program will automatically download them from the server, just like newly bought books. 
2. Alternatively, you can use the Scan command on the folder where the compiled PBs are in your prior installation - or put them onto a USB stick/thumbdrive or something you can easily identify (such as Scan G:\ when the stick is mounted as G:)
3. You can rebuild the PBs in the new installation. This requires the PB sources to be present and it will require them to follow the current acceptable compiler standards, i.e. no empty paragraphs. A quick workaround for that may be to replace all paragraph marks with space-paragraph in Word ("^p" with " ^p") and, if it still breaks, put in something before empty section breaks and into empty footnotes/endnotes.      

Thanks, Mick. No L7 installation, so I'll have to go about trying to fix the .docx files for those that are worth the trouble to do so.

IM having the same issue.

Please clarify in more detail what you see as "having the same issue" - screenshots and logfiles will probably help.

does this mean there is no way that Logos can update their PB compiler?

Actually they did. To the best of my knowledge, the current version of Logos will not break the build when encountering "empty paragraphs" - it will document this in the PB compile log, but go on. You may safely ignore those log entries, the books will be fully functional. So: scouring through the files and changing docx that used to work in the past should no longer be necessary.

I got the dreaded "You don't have a license to view this resource" notification.

That simply means that you have not compiled the resource on this particular computer. The metadata (author, title, book cover) automatically syncs. The actual resource itself, does not. 

I saw a reference in some of the other posts about the need to upload the PBs to the server; I have not done this, didn't know I needed to do this, don't know how to do this.

You don't have to do so, and there are some consequences of doing so. Once you upload it, you can't delete it from the FL servers. Some users complain about this, so fair warning.

Do I need to upload the books from my PC in order for the MacBook to download them?

To download something, it first has to be uploaded... so yes. However, you do not have to upload it to view it on the other computer. You can choose to recompile it on that device. If you do, it will require that you have the source .docx file. 

How do I do this?

To upload a personal book resource, you press the "upload" button in the edit view of the "personal book builder" tool.