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Originally Posted by Vince197
Many thanks Starson17 & dwanthny for the prompt replies.
I now have a much better idea of calibre and it's target application.
My need is for an simple ebook file manager to map the file names to the book names. NBD I will de-install and look for another tool.
pity...... calibre seems like a well written app.
thanks again
Vince197
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When do you want to map it.
A. Before it is copied to calibre (because the filename contains info about the book)
B. After it is calibre (because you want to link to it)
Both file-names can be used for mapping
A. Look into your settings. There you can tell calibre how to import books, and how to use the filename during import. You could just tell calibre not to use the metadata during import but just set the filename as author (you even can put a regex to split parts of the filename into author / series / ....
B. This is not a (big) problem either. All filenames are build in the same way:
CALIBREFOLDER/First Author/Title space (calibreid)/Title space - space First Author.Format
Author and title have max 40 characters
In the upper information " space " just means there is a space " " on that point
Strange characters are replaced e.g. é becomes e, non-letter-characters becomes _ (~,= etc)
So for B the only problem is you have to look for the calibre id. The rest is known by you