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Feff · 02-03-2011, 06:16 AM

I recently started using Calibre and decided to get my e-book collection organized with all of the books properly labeled and in a single file format. I converted all of my library to epub and spent hours correcting missing or incomplete titles and author information.

The next step in the process is where I had trouble and found that Calibre hadn't been fully updating the metadata. Every book in the library was in two different formats and I decided to save disk space by moving the epub files to a new directory and letting Calibre rebuild my library.

I imported the files with the "read metadata from file contents" option checked in preferences for adding books. ALL of the book titles and author names reverted to what they had been BEFORE I spent hours using Caliber to get the proper information entered for the books.

I decided to start again and get the tags from the file names only to find that about 1/2 of the file names have been truncated from what the old database had been showing.

I am about to start re-editing the data and need to know how to keep this from happening again.

02-03-2011, 06:16 AM	#1
Feff Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2011 Device: Nook	Metadata in files is not being updated. I recently started using Calibre and decided to get my e-book collection organized with all of the books properly labeled and in a single file format. I converted all of my library to epub and spent hours correcting missing or incomplete titles and author information. The next step in the process is where I had trouble and found that Calibre hadn't been fully updating the metadata. Every book in the library was in two different formats and I decided to save disk space by moving the epub files to a new directory and letting Calibre rebuild my library. I imported the files with the "read metadata from file contents" option checked in preferences for adding books. ALL of the book titles and author names reverted to what they had been BEFORE I spent hours using Caliber to get the proper information entered for the books. I decided to start again and get the tags from the file names only to find that about 1/2 of the file names have been truncated from what the old database had been showing. I am about to start re-editing the data and need to know how to keep this from happening again.