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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
That would require changes at too many levels of the calibre internal design. calibre is not really meant to manage documents you are actively working on. It's meant to manage large document collections. If you are actively working on a document you should work on it outside calibre, and put it into calibre once you're done.
A workaround I sometimes use for the epub-to-epub issue is to rename the master epub file to zip. calibre can convert a zip to an epub just fine.
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As I was writting the suggestion, I thought that would be probably your reply
. Calibre has a clear way of indexing the files associated to an entry based on the format they have, or at least that's what I get without taking a look at the code.
I got 2 questions anyway (as a newbie that I am here):
Is it possible to lock a file and make it read-only so later conversions wouldn't overwrite it? This way at least is a bit more difficult to overwrite the "master" by accident.
And my second question is: I do not understand how calibre is not
"meant to manage documents you are actively working on". Since it has all those conversion engines, it is indeed a program to work on documents (format wise), and not just a static repository.
I repeat, I am a newbie here, and I'm just exploring all the possibilities that calibre has to offer. And maybe is my fault because I still do not know how to use it properly.
But I don't get why if I make a conversion of a document, and its output format already exists for this entry (output being pdf when there's already a pdf associated file for this book) the earlier pdf must be overwritten. Is not this behavior a bit dangerous?
Thanks a lot for the answers guys.