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Old 01-15-2011, 10:13 PM   #1
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Updating folder structure on device without reloading all books

I've decided that this: {author_sort[0]}/{author_sort}/{series}/{series_index:0>3s} - {title} - {authors} is a good way to view books on my device. Previously I had: {author_sort}/{series}/{series_index} - {title} - {authors}.

The question is, how can I get Calibre to restructure my folders without selecting my whole library, deleting & resending to my Pocketbook 360?


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I've decided that this: {author_sort[0]}/{author_sort}/{series}/{series_index:0>3s} - {title} - {authors} is a good way to view books on my device. Previously I had: {author_sort}/{series}/{series_index} - {title} - {authors}.

The question is, how can I get Calibre to restructure my folders without selecting my whole library, deleting & resending to my Pocketbook 360?


Delete and resend. Calibre does not move files and folders around on the device. Only Create (I am almost positive that Calibre can only delete BOOKS, not folders, once they are made.

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Your series only-ever have 1 Author each?
So what happens with Pern? Most are by Anne, but some are by Todd.
Karres witches?
Perry Rhodan (5 different authors)
or any series that has co-authors (and not always the same ones)?
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Delete and resend. Calibre does not move files and folders around on the device. Only Create (I am almost positive that Calibre can only delete BOOKS, not folders, once they are made.
I've seen it delete a books' folder if, and only if, it was empty after deleting the book.
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Ok, thank you.

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Your series only-ever have 1 Author each?
So what happens with Pern? Most are by Anne, but some are by Todd.
Karres witches?
Perry Rhodan (5 different authors)
or any series that has co-authors (and not always the same ones)?
Well, so far the only series I've loaded that doesn't is the Harvard classics & I solved that by just having "author sort" = "harvard". It's not beautiful, but it gets the job done & keeps the series together. I'd probably manage other series in some similar way - but out of curiosity how do you do it? Series first?
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Well, so far the only series I've loaded that doesn't is the Harvard classics & I solved that by just having "author sort" = "harvard". It's not beautiful, but it gets the job done & keeps the series together. I'd probably manage other series in some similar way - but out of curiosity how do you do it? Series first?
Bingo!
Actually I have 400 series so I do another layer

Code:
{series[0]}-series/{series}/{series_index:0>2s} {title}_{id}_{authors}
the first part creates a folder for the first letter.
A-series/
then there is the series name folder
Anyseries/
Inside is the books with the series index at the beginning, leading 0 padded where needed.
Last is the author

For NON series, I use a different mask.
Code:
00NoSeries/{author_sort[0]}_authors/{authors}/{title}_{id}-{authors}
This puts the tree in a folder called:
00NoSeries/
Authors are now more relevant in finding titles, so
U_authors/Unknown

title (the last Authors is just me being redundant)

{ID} is only useful to help identify a 'duplicate' that appears on your reader and is worthless if you use 2 or more Calibre libraries.
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