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Mekk · 10-14-2011, 10:26 AM

It would be great, if calibre could be configured NOT to use author and title for directory and filenames, but use something persistend (like numerical id) instead.

Reasoning? Consequences of author/title spelling corrections when calibre library is version-controlled and/or synchronized – and I mean both explicit version control (I keep my library under mercurial) and automatic tools like Dropbox or other cloud drives.

Unfortunately those tools are usually bad at truly tracking the file over renames, even if they detect the fact, and - with the current calibre directory layout - fixing typo in the author name usually results in doubling space occupied by the repository, re-syncing whole (unchanged) file over the network, loosing the file changes history or similar problems.

I agree that the current convention is nice whenever one locates the book using file manager (insted of calibre), so I'd not recomment giving it up, but maybe calibre could make it possible to configure the way filenames are generated via some preference setting?

10-14-2011, 10:26 AM	#1
Mekk Member Posts: 21 Karma: 50 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Poland Device: Sony PRS-600	An option NOT to use authors and titles in directory and file names? It would be great, if calibre could be configured NOT to use author and title for directory and filenames, but use something persistend (like numerical id) instead. Reasoning? Consequences of author/title spelling corrections when calibre library is version-controlled and/or synchronized – and I mean both explicit version control (I keep my library under mercurial) and automatic tools like Dropbox or other cloud drives. Unfortunately those tools are usually bad at truly tracking the file over renames, even if they detect the fact, and - with the current calibre directory layout - fixing typo in the author name usually results in doubling space occupied by the repository, re-syncing whole (unchanged) file over the network, loosing the file changes history or similar problems. I agree that the current convention is nice whenever one locates the book using file manager (insted of calibre), so I'd not recomment giving it up, but maybe calibre could make it possible to configure the way filenames are generated via some preference setting?