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Originally Posted by capidamonte
I've just read this entire thread, and I'm wondering about the "save to disk" action you keep taking. Is it possible that you've saved into the Calibre library storage folder? My reading of your early explanations suggest this.
When I first started using Calibre I found that option tremendously confusing. It's poorly named -- it's actually an export (copy), for use with non-recognized devices or for other sharing. It seems like it should be a "save my changes" or "update my library" function, but it's not. It can be used to export your entire library filtered to, say, a single format, then reimported back into Calibre after deleting the old library, thus shrinking and simplifying it by removing other conversions or sources.
If you did save into the Calibre library folder, it would explain why you had "quadruples" of folders in the library, all with different folder names.
I think you've moved your library already, but it's also possible that there were naming collisions that corrupted your sources and that permissions were mangled -- and that some of this was carried over to the new location.
Just a thought.
At this stage, I'd do an uninstall and a fresh install with a different library location on a local disk. Then import maybe six or eight books by three or four authors to experiment with so you're not juggling too many variables.
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I experimented with the Save to Disk only twice. Both times, I treated it like an export function, specifying a separate, external hard drive location for what I believed would be an external backup of my existing Calibre file. I did this the first time to that external drive with the simple "save to disk" menu item, and the second time I did it to the external disk using the "Sate to disk in a single directory" version because I did not like having a bajiliion unnecessary subdirectories.
I do not know what created so many separate folders in the calibre file structure for a single author beyond the initial import of books into the database. As several have posted here, when you change the authorname data in the Gui, it SHOULD change the folder structure to reflect those changes, leaving no extraneous folders in its wake. But, in practice, what I had when I began this thread was a folder for every iteration of authorname that had ever existed including odd versions which would never occur in a proper databases record (e.g., corrupted metadata on import remains in the database even after being corrected.)
Not sure how to fix that one. I am hoping that having moved my calibre database to a new location on my hard drive, the old corrupt database can now be eliminated safely and I need not (hopefully) even look into this one because it should be * clean.
...and, my "save to disk" and "convert file" behaviors I hope will only need to be continued in the rarest of cases because if I understand everyone here correctly, I should not have to do either function for my metadata.db to be correct. It should correct itself when I click "ok" after changing metadata in the metadata edit dialog window.