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Forum: Library Management 07-02-2020, 03:46 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,647
Posted By wladdy
Search for series with a specific number of book

Hello,

Is there a way to search for all books in series that contain exactly n books?
With n=1, I have tried the following two syntaxes, but neither works.

series:#=1
series_index:#=1

I...
Forum: Library Management 06-07-2020, 07:11 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,446
Posted By wladdy
Thanks Kovid, I didn't realize that. But...

Thanks Kovid, I didn't realize that.

But during installation, besides the 'Calibre' program being copied to the 'Applications' folder, a few hideen folders and files are also created in subfolders...
Forum: Library Management 06-07-2020, 07:40 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,446
Posted By wladdy
Moving macOS Calibre to external SSD

Hello,

I use the latest version of Calibre on macOS 10.15.5. My main computer is a MacMini 2018 with a 3,2 GHz 6-core Intel Core i7 processor and 32GB RAM. The hard drive is the 1TB SSD original...
Forum: Library Management 08-12-2018, 08:23 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,933
Posted By wladdy
Deducing "Author sort" and "Title sort" through CLI

Hello,

I add books to Calibre through a shell script that properly sets "Author" and "Title".
I am aware that I could also include "Author sort" and "Title sort", but that would make me write...
Forum: Library Management 07-19-2016, 06:00 PM
Replies: 52
Views: 4,678
Posted By wladdy
Thank you for your reply Eschwartz....

Thank you for your reply Eschwartz. Unfortunately, the thread you've directed me to is way beyond my skill level. I wouldn't know the first thing to do with all these python files!

What I take...
Forum: Library Management 07-18-2016, 07:33 PM
Replies: 52
Views: 4,678
Posted By wladdy
Custom field 'Plain text, not shown in the tag browser', just like 'Title'

I want custom text fields to store plain text data exactly like the 'Title' built-in field.
For example, I'd like a field #original_title when the book is a translation, and another called #subtitle...
Forum: Devices 04-19-2016, 02:18 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 964
Posted By wladdy
Alas, this does not come as a total surprise... ...

Alas, this does not come as a total surprise...

Thank you for taking the time, GeoffR.
Forum: Devices 04-19-2016, 01:31 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 964
Posted By wladdy
Kobo Aura HD does not support 'title_sort'

On Calibre, metadata plugboards offer 'title_sort' as a destination field for epub.

I hoped that I could use this feature with my Kobo Aura HD, to sort books in a custom non-alphabetic way yet to...
Forum: Calibre 08-02-2015, 12:14 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,523
Posted By wladdy
To be even more specific, this works; ...

To be even more specific, this works;

a="authors:John Doe"
calibredb set_metadata -f "$a" 10030

this does not:

a="-f authors:John Doe"
calibredb set_metadata "$a" 10030
Forum: Calibre 08-01-2015, 11:28 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,523
Posted By wladdy
Quoting variables containing options in CLI

I'm on Max OSX. I want to use a bash shell script to fill the 'authors' field and a 'translator' custom field.

This works perfectly:

#!/bin/bash
id=10030
calibredb set_metadata -f...
Forum: Library Management 07-16-2015, 05:58 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 2,901
Posted By wladdy
Update 'title sort' and 'author sort' through CLI

I wrote a script in Unix to add empty books to Calibre and then populate their metadata based on what's listed in a separate text file. Now, while the books that I create using 'calibredb...
Forum: Calibre 05-09-2015, 07:23 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,254
Posted By wladdy
Thank you for the prompt replies, I'll just keep...

Thank you for the prompt replies, I'll just keep using my workaround - Kovid's suggestion is way beyond my skill level!

A good week-end to all and, to Kovid, my wishes of full recovery! W.
Forum: Calibre 05-09-2015, 06:57 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,254
Posted By wladdy
Getting IDs of books selected in the GUI

Is there a direct way to get through the CLI the IDs of the books currently selected in the GUI?

Today, my workaround involves a custom Yes/No column whose lookup name is "current". In the GUI, I...
Forum: Library Management 03-12-2015, 09:12 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,095
Posted By wladdy
I ended up writing the following shell script to...

I ended up writing the following shell script to identify the folders with no OPF metadata file.

#!/bin/bash
L=""
r="/Volumes/Ext/CalibreLibrary/"
d=$(find "$r" -type d -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2)...
Forum: Library Management 03-12-2015, 09:15 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,095
Posted By wladdy
Thank you, BetterRed. 'calibredb...

Thank you, BetterRed.

'calibredb backup_metadata' does nothing.
'calibredb backup_metadata --all' returns an error message (attached below).
In both cases, I get the prompt back way too soon for...
Forum: Library Management 03-12-2015, 06:08 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,095
Posted By wladdy
Deleting folders without OPF vs recreating OPF files

After a large import, many of the new books did not appear in my library.

The 'Check library' tool, shows many 'Extra titles'.
When I look at the Calibre library folder structure in the Finder (I...
Forum: Library Management 03-11-2015, 05:49 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,157
Posted By wladdy
Thank you for your replies. I ended up using...

Thank you for your replies.

I ended up using 'A better Finder Rename' to append their paths at the beginning of a few thousand files. The files are now in Calibre, whose 'Search and replace' among...
Forum: Library Management 03-11-2015, 12:16 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,157
Posted By wladdy
Get metadata from parent folders

I have a bunch of ebooks stored in a structure of nested folders all going back up to a root folder.

How can I import the books into Calibre while keeping the information contained in the pathname...
Forum: Library Management 10-02-2014, 07:16 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 931
Posted By wladdy
Some book files get destroyed after I open them or edit metadata

Hello,

I use Calibre 2.3 on a 13" mid-2011 MacBook Air (1,7GHZ Intel Core i5, 4GB 1333 MHz DDR3) running OS X 10.9.5.

I have a major problem with my library (about 8000 books):
when I import a...
Forum: Library Management 08-08-2014, 01:56 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 1,518
Posted By wladdy
Custom field for 'original language'

Hi, many of my books are translations. I would like to have a custom field with the 'original language', offering the same options as the native 'Language' field (i.e.: Abkhazian, Achinese, Acoli,...
Forum: Calibre 03-01-2014, 12:18 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,387
Posted By wladdy
Prevents ZIPs from becoming CBZs

When I try to add a zip file to a given book, the zip automatically transforms into cbz. I read on another thread that the transformation is due to the zip containing only images. Is there a way to...
Forum: Calibre 02-14-2014, 11:07 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 956
Posted By wladdy
Search and replace returns entire field when no match is found

A bunch of books titles contain either the title followd by the publication year (eg: "The shining (1977)") or the title by itself (eg: "Carrie").

To isolate all years and move them into pubdate,...
Forum: Calibre 04-08-2013, 04:17 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 2,197
Posted By wladdy
How to find easily books with multiple authors?

Hi,

I need to find in the main interface all books with multiple authors
After reading this article (http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/gui.html) I assumed that I needed to use a regular expression...
Forum: Library Management 08-28-2012, 06:04 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 12,477
Posted By wladdy
I ran Mac OS X's Disk Utility on the external...

I ran Mac OS X's Disk Utility on the external hard drive to scan it and repair it, and it did the trick!

Thanks a lot Kovid for pointing me in the right direction, responding so quickly and...
Forum: Library Management 08-28-2012, 05:29 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 12,477
Posted By wladdy
Thanks Kovid, but the database in on a local...

Thanks Kovid, but the database in on a local external USB drive over which I have full read/write privileges and my Mac is without any 3rd party antivirus.

Could you maybe suggest some other leads...
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