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Old 08-03-2010, 10:03 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by mumdigau View Post
Sorry, it's a typo. It should have read ebook-meta, of course.

Yes, I tried without quotes even though the manual says to use quotes if the arguments contain spaces. I tried both, -a and --authors, nop. I even changed path\filename so that it doesn't contain any spaces: no success.

Any other ideas?
It seems like you ran it correctly, what error did it give you?

In other words what was the output of the job. I just ran it, the same way you said to and it worked fine.

Here is the whole job from start to finish.

Spoiler:
Code:
C:\My Dropbox\CalibreLibrary\Alfred Bester\The Demolished Man (2021)>ebook-meta "The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester.epub" -a "Alfred AAABester"
Original metadata::
Title : The Demolished Man
Author(s) : Alfred Bester [Bester, Alfred]
Publisher : Pocket Books
Book Producer : calibre (0.6.13) [http://calibre-ebook.com]
Comments : SUMMARY:
In a world policed by telepaths, Ben Reich plans to commit a crime that hasn't been heard of in 70 years: murder. That's the only option left for Reich, whose company is losing a 10-year death struggle with rival D'Courtney Enterprises. Terrorized in his dreams by The Man With No Face and driven to the edge after D'Courtney refuses a merger offer, Reich murders his rival and bribes a high-ranking telepath to help him cover his tracks. But while police prefect Lincoln Powell knows Reich is guilty, his telepath's knowledge is a far cry from admissible evidence.
ISBN : 9780671820466
Tags : Science Fiction, Top 100 Sci-fi, Hugo Best Novel
Rating : 8
Timestamp : 2009-09-26T12:59:59+00:00
Published : 2009-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

Changed metadata::
Title : The Demolished Man
Author(s) : Alfred AAABester [AAABester, Alfred]
Publisher : Pocket Books
Book Producer : calibre (0.6.13) [http://calibre-ebook.com]
Comments : SUMMARY:
In a world policed by telepaths, Ben Reich plans to commit a crime that hasn't been heard of in 70 years: murder. That's the only option left for Reich, whose company is losing a 10-year death struggle with rival D'Courtney Enterprises. Terrorized in his dreams by The Man With No Face and driven to the edge after D'Courtney refuses a merger offer, Reich murders his rival and bribes a high-ranking telepath to help him cover his tracks. But while police prefect Lincoln Powell knows Reich is guilty, his telepath's knowledge is a far cry from admissible evidence.
ISBN : 9780671820466
Tags : Science Fiction, Top 100 Sci-fi, Hugo Best Novel
Rating : 8
Timestamp : 2009-09-26T12:59:59+00:00
Published : 2009-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

FYI, I am also using the latest version of Calibre (0.7.12) and my OS is also Windows XP Pro SP3.

One last thought, this changes the metadata in the actual file not in Calibre's metadata.db. So after using ebook-meta to change the metadata in the book the change will not be shown in the Calibre GUI.

I did it once more from the root directory actually specifying a path this time and it still worked fine.

Spoiler:

Code:
C:\>ebook-meta "C:\My Dropbox\CalibreLibrary\Alfred Bester\The Demolished Man (2021)\The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester.epub" -a "Alfred BBBBester"
Original metadata::
Title : The Demolished Man
Author(s) : Alfred AAABester [AAABester, Alfred]
Publisher : Pocket Books
Book Producer : calibre (0.6.13) [http://calibre-ebook.com]
Comments : SUMMARY:
In a world policed by telepaths, Ben Reich plans to commit a crime that hasn't been heard of in 70 years: murder. That's the only option left for Reich, whose company is losing a 10-year death struggle with rival D'Courtney Enterprises. Terrorized in his dreams by The Man With No Face and driven to the edge after D'Courtney refuses a merger offer, Reich murders his rival and bribes a high-ranking telepath to help him cover his tracks. But while police prefect Lincoln Powell knows Reich is guilty, his telepath's knowledge is a far cry from admissible evidence.
ISBN : 9780671820466
Tags : Science Fiction, Top 100 Sci-fi, Hugo Best Novel
Rating : 8
Timestamp : 2009-09-26T12:59:59+00:00
Published : 2009-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

Changed metadata::
Title : The Demolished Man
Author(s) : Alfred BBBBester [BBBBester, Alfred]
Publisher : Pocket Books
Book Producer : calibre (0.6.13) [http://calibre-ebook.com]
Comments : SUMMARY:
In a world policed by telepaths, Ben Reich plans to commit a crime that hasn't been heard of in 70 years: murder. That's the only option left for Reich, whose company is losing a 10-year death struggle with rival D'Courtney Enterprises. Terrorized in his dreams by The Man With No Face and driven to the edge after D'Courtney refuses a merger offer, Reich murders his rival and bribes a high-ranking telepath to help him cover his tracks. But while police prefect Lincoln Powell knows Reich is guilty, his telepath's knowledge is a far cry from admissible evidence.
ISBN : 9780671820466
Tags : Science Fiction, Top 100 Sci-fi, Hugo Best Novel
Rating : 8
Timestamp : 2009-09-26T12:59:59+00:00
Published : 2009-09-25T04:00:00+00:00
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