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Rusherman · 10-09-2010, 10:01 PM

I hope I am in the proper forum. If not please tell me.
Meanwhile I found Calibre a few months ago and found it to be the best at converting large numbers of files. The only problem I have is it mangles the Author Title from the way my library is set up. I want to use the filename
"Author - Title" to name the file while converting. I have had no luck and this so far. I have changed the adding books section of the options to get it close but no fully working. I am getting "Author - Title chopped off - Unknown. I could easily remove the - Unknown but would still have to redo each title. The more I read on regular expressions the more confused I get on them. Could anyone explain to to set this program so that converting a book from the file name would keep it all intact and not add the " - Unknown at the end of the file. Sorry for such a long post on what is likely a simple problem.

10-09-2010, 10:01 PM	#1
Rusherman Member Posts: 18 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Ontario Canada Device: Aluratek Libre ebook reader	Help with formating the Title Please I hope I am in the proper forum. If not please tell me. Meanwhile I found Calibre a few months ago and found it to be the best at converting large numbers of files. The only problem I have is it mangles the Author Title from the way my library is set up. I want to use the filename "Author - Title" to name the file while converting. I have had no luck and this so far. I have changed the adding books section of the options to get it close but no fully working. I am getting "Author - Title chopped off - Unknown. I could easily remove the - Unknown but would still have to redo each title. The more I read on regular expressions the more confused I get on them. Could anyone explain to to set this program so that converting a book from the file name would keep it all intact and not add the " - Unknown at the end of the file. Sorry for such a long post on what is likely a simple problem.