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Originally Posted by Iņigo
For pdf and epub files, UDS will overwrite every changed field if they don't match with what it reads from the books metadata. There is a hack in Mackx's DR1000 hack to block UDS writing but it's not present in DR800+ yet.
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Ah, didn't realize that... Somehow I had it in my mind that it was the reverse, and that in the past I had gone in to an already indexed pdf to set an author and that it hadn't been reindexed until I deleted it and then copied it back... It's mostly encrypted PDFs where the metadata can't be changed without corrupting the pdf where I can't just alter the pdf/epub before copying (Calibre does this itself usually)
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Originally Posted by Iņigo
Adding many .metadata and .cover files will pollute the file system with may new files. Also .cover files will be inserted in global.db as valid documents.
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I remember there being a blacklist of file extensions hard coded in to the indexer that get hidden... That's why I was thinking .cover even though it would really be a .png or .jpg, so that it wouldn't break indexing images...
If you put all thousand of your books in a single directory the 3x number of files would probably be trouble on FAT32, but calibre puts them in /Books/Author/ (and I organized my books similarly before calibre came along) which limits the number of files in any single directory.