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Originally Posted by Archon
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Originally Posted by gweminence
I've never understood why people (Not you, op, just some in general) want to muck about with the directories anyway. For pete's sake, the program does it just fine, all by it's lonesome...
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Uh I don't think he wants to muck around with the directory. |
It is easy to see why gweminence and I have this impression. When in the first post he sums up his problem as follows.
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Originally Posted by deleteriousone
to recap I want Calibre to store files as genre\author (last, first)\Series\filiename including series number
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Then continues the discussion about data being stuck in a proprietary program.
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Originally Posted by deleteriousone
The program does have it benefits, however I can't count the number of times that I have had a client with data stuck in a proprietary program with no way to get it out when they do something like upgrade their PC operating system. Many times I have had to build a virtual machine to run just one need program.
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Wishing it indexed files instead of copying them.
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Originally Posted by deleteriousone
I do wish that that I worked more like Adobe Lightroom and just indexed files where they are located rather than needing to make it's own copy.
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And then continues on with a discussion of file name lengths. In calibre there is only one place where file names are truncated due to being too long and that is inside the calibre database / directory structure.
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Originally Posted by deleteriousone
I once had many of my files name just as you suggested, however ran into issue with the length of file names in other apps and devices. Restrictions of length of the file name has bit me when using a media player to listen to audio books when the player concatenates files names and plays them in the wrong order.
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The plus is he does understand the limits and is trying to work within those limits. I already discussed the fact that he can export all of his books out of this "proprietary program" in the exact format he wishes. Using the save to disk feature with a proper save template and possibly a custom column or two will create an external directory structure (as a back-up from this proprietary program) exactly as he imagines.
You certainly can jump through enough hoops to make calibre's directory look close to what he is describing but it will be LN_FN never LN,FN and there will be times when file names will be truncated.
I wish him luck and will be glad to offer any assistance I can.