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Originally Posted by Bigo2
I am trying everything what was said here about the Author(s) sort - the order of the First Name and the Second Name (or Christian Name and Surname if you like) but cannot find the solution...
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There are many threads discussing this topic. Take a look at
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=110352.
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But first, I have to say that I do not understand why any programmer would even think about organizing people’s names database in any other way than the SURNAME first…
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Because a large majority of users want to see the names in FN LN (FirstName LastName) order.
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My requirement is, that the Calibre Library file structure created on my PC should look like this:
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M:\Calibre Library\Bain, Darrell\Altered Humans (####)\
M:\Calibre Library\Hobb, Robin\Assasin’s apprentice (####)\
M:\Calibre Library\Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich\Doctor Zhivago\
M:\Calibre Library\Tub, E. C.\Poor Henry (####)\
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As GoingDown said, you have no control over how calibre stores its data in the file system, and should not depend upon it.
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Could you please let me know what to do to be able transfer these mixed files from my source and get most of the Calibre Library on my PC as well as in the Calibre program sorted out according to my requirement? I mean, is there any universal algorithm or tweak which can be applied to get (mostly) as I require?
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GoingDown gave you the gist. First get your library set up with the author tweaks set as you wish. Next, import the books, setting the options as you wish. You will almost certainly need to play with the field matching regexps, and for all the examples, you will need to check the 'swap author first name and last name' box in preferences/add books. Some cleanup will be required for names that calibre gets wrong, such as Joe Blogs Jr.