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danwdoo · 01-20-2011, 12:17 PM

Hello,
I have Calibre set to only import metadate from the filename (the other gave me endless problems) so I have the following expression on the adding books page:

(?P<author>[^_-]+) -?\s*(?P<series>[^_0-9-]*)(?P<series_index>[0-9]*)\s*-\s*(?P<title>[^_].+)

This works perfectly because I always name new books as:

author - series - title

What I want is to have Calibre save imported books using the same basic order. Sometimes I want to give a book to my wife that is already in my Calibre database and I want her to be able to drop it strait into her Calibre without either of us having to do any file renaming. So basically straight from one instance of Calibre to another instance without chages being needed to the file is what I want. I assume there must be something else I'm missing?

01-20-2011, 12:17 PM	#4
danwdoo Groupie Posts: 168 Karma: 2584958 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Texas Device: Kindle PW2	Hello, I have Calibre set to only import metadate from the filename (the other gave me endless problems) so I have the following expression on the adding books page: (?P<author>[^_-]+) -?\s(?P<series>[^_0-9-])(?P<series_index>[0-9])\s-\s*(?P<title>[^_].+) This works perfectly because I always name new books as: author - series - title What I want is to have Calibre save imported books using the same basic order. Sometimes I want to give a book to my wife that is already in my Calibre database and I want her to be able to drop it strait into her Calibre without either of us having to do any file renaming. So basically straight from one instance of Calibre to another instance without chages being needed to the file is what I want. I assume there must be something else I'm missing?