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kacir · 09-26-2010, 03:44 PM

I have installed 0.7.903

I have made backup of my library and tried some things. Let's see if I can break something [insert Mad scientist laughter here]. I tried to import some 3000 books with metadata in filenames. Format like "Jack London=the call of the wild.txt". I have created those files from a folder structure that had books like London_Jack/the_call_of_the_wild.txt" using shell script.
I have clicked on import and then I realized I forgot to set Preferences -> Import/export -> Adding books -> Regular expression.
So I started to click very furiously on the Abort button. Calibre did not stop importing. It displayed "Aborting" in the message and happily continued to import garbage for next hour or so.
I had to delete books and import them again.
The process seems to have finished successfully, but the program displayed curious message that the import process hanged.

I have tried to make a custom column, built from other columns. When I sort this column, it does not sort by alphabet (ignoring case) but "the Unix way" with A, B, C, ... Z, then a, b, c, ... z
Windows users are not used to this. They want to have it sorted regardless of case.

09-26-2010, 03:44 PM	#105
kacir Wizard Posts: 3,463 Karma: 10684861 Join Date: May 2006 Device: PocketBook 360, before it was Sony Reader, cassiopeia A-20	I have installed 0.7.903 I have made backup of my library and tried some things. Let's see if I can break something [insert Mad scientist laughter here]. I tried to import some 3000 books with metadata in filenames. Format like "Jack London=the call of the wild.txt". I have created those files from a folder structure that had books like London_Jack/the_call_of_the_wild.txt" using shell script. I have clicked on import and then I realized I forgot to set Preferences -> Import/export -> Adding books -> Regular expression. So I started to click very furiously on the Abort button. Calibre did not stop importing. It displayed "Aborting" in the message and happily continued to import garbage for next hour or so. I had to delete books and import them again. The process seems to have finished successfully, but the program displayed curious message that the import process hanged. I have tried to make a custom column, built from other columns. When I sort this column, it does not sort by alphabet (ignoring case) but "the Unix way" with A, B, C, ... Z, then a, b, c, ... z Windows users are not used to this. They want to have it sorted regardless of case.