I've done a little experiment with save to disk. Doing this did preserve the Title, Author, Comments and Cover as I had edited them; however, the Series information was not. I would like to export books in such a manner as to have the metadata, as I have edited it (including two custom fields - both are Yes/No). I have looked at (and tried) the Save to disk template editor (I tried to add Series and Series Index according to the template language tutorial). Using save to disk, I have discovered, makes the filename longer (I fail to see why it is necessary to include the author's name in the book filename when it is already the folder name.) When I added the Series and Series Index, this too made the filename longer.
FYI: the 256 character naming convention in the Windows OS is not just the name of the individual file. It is the sum total of the complete path including the filename. So a file in Documents called text.doc would actually be C:\Users\username\Documents\text.doc
If your Calibre Library is stored on your internal hard drive, Bram Stoker's Dracula might be C:\Users\username\Documents\Calibre\Bram Stoker\Dracula (4385)\Dracula - Bram Stoker.mobi - that's 89 characters (if I counted right). Forgive the moment of geek, but in the old days, it was possible to put too many files in a subdirectory and have the OS lose them. If you have ever come across the problem of not being able to copy a file from, shall we say, an external source to a folder on your hard drive because the filename is too long, it is the total of the structure of a filename that comes into play.
So with all that, how do I preserve my time spent sprucing up my Calibre library without having everything I want to preserve end up as part of the filename?
It is my guess that bibliophiles such as I are a little OCD about their books whether they sit on a dusty shelf or on a hard drive.
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