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Originally Posted by Trickery
Couldn't he just use "Preferences > Input/Export > Adding Books > Configure Metadata from Filename" to get everything imported from his original library into Calibre completely intact?
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He did that and did it well since he wasn't complaining about not being able to get the filenames read correctly. He was complaining because calibre stores files in it's databaste with a limited amount of characters for the filename, so when he used explorer to grab those files "His filenames were destroyed".
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Originally Posted by Trickery
Also I don't see the point of other folks responses besides Lady Fitz. You guys all act like the original poster slapped your mother in the face. Either educate the guy or don't bother posting.
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Way to rise above it. If he had wanted to be educated he would have been educated. Did you read his post? He wanted to lecture us about his superiority when it comes to understanding all things data.
BTW if you read my post to him you would have understood that he imported his metadata from file names and despite my sideways attitude I educated him on the the same thing you educated him on and even linked to the manual so he could educate hilmself.
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Originally Posted by kacir
Thank you for the post.
You have restored my faith in the high level of culture I have come to expect on Mobileread.
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respond directly to your pity session post and get ignored. I guess you really wanted the help.
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Originally Posted by kacir
It is also worth noting, that if the original poster has consistent naming scheme, he could go to the Preferences, Import/Export, Adding books, and craft the regular expression for automatic harvesting of metadata from the filename.
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Again I find it odd that folks can't understand that he did this step and apparently very well, because he was complaining about how calibre truncates its filenames inside the database after he successfully imported them using the Metadata from Filename.