Import order when adding multiple books

[Sparkling]

When I add multiple books to calibre they seem to be added in a random order instead of by filename which I think was how it worked a while before. Is there somewhere I can change this? Having newly added books shown organized in this way makes my metadata editing go way faster.

[speakingtohe]

For me it has always added them in the order they come. A windows thing I think.
I always sort by date and don't find a sorted title helps but easy enough to do

Quick and dirty: Before adding books type some nonsense into the search bar so you have no books showing. Then add your books and sort them how you want before editing. (any bulk edit will mess things up though)

Would be better to use todays date as the search but I can't seem to manage that.
Helen

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Sparkling

When I add multiple books to calibre they seem to be added in a random order instead of by filename which I think was how it worked a while before. Is there somewhere I can change this? Having newly added books shown organized in this way makes my metadata editing go way faster.

I believe that this is a Windows filesystem thing in that it is the underlying 'Natural order' of the 8.3 name (dir /X in a command prompt window)

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by Sparkling

When I add multiple books to calibre they seem to be added in a random order instead of by filename which I think was how it worked a while before. Is there somewhere I can change this? Having newly added books shown organized in this way makes my metadata editing go way faster.

If you are using Windows, they come in in the order Windows gives them to Calibre. Try sorting them in the Windows File Explorer the way you want them, then highlight them, then drag the highlighted group by selecting the group at the first file in the highlighted group (at the top). If you grab the group in the middle, Windows will pass from the selected middle file down, then go to the top and grab those.

I can't say if that's how Calibre gets them, but I used to have an audio player that played by the order it received files, and that was the only way to get them in the right order onto it. I was surprised that the point in the highlighted group you pick controls the order they are sent.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by speakingtohe

Would be better to use todays date as the search but I can't seem to manage that.

date:=today

[Sparkling]

speakingtohe, chaley: Thanks! I knew there was some way-to-easy-to-not-overlook-way of doing this