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Old 02-18-2012, 03:25 PM   #1
Distorted Vision
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Device: Amazon Kindle 4G
Save to Disc - Folder name / Filename Problems

I'm only got my Kindle yesterday and installed Calibre today. I'm having problems with the folder names / file names when using 'Save to Disc'.

In calibre->Preferences->Saving books to disc I have save template:

{title} - {authors} [{publisher}, {pubdate}]/{title} - {authors} [{publisher}, {pubdate}]

I have two issues as you can see below:
  1. A colon is replaced by an underscore
  2. Some of the folder names aren't named correctly






I appreciate the issue wth the colon is because it isn't allowed in filenames but is there a way for it to insert a dash instead or just ignore the colon?

I don't understand why some folders aren't named correctly, I had even greater problems when I was trying to use Author_Sort to create a directory etc. Eg, I have

"Quants_ How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Waloyed It, The - Scott Patterson [Crown Business, 2010]"

instead of

"Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It, The - Scott Patterson [Crown Business, 2010]"

I really can't work out why it does this. Can anyone please help?

Also I want it to create a directory with the category name so I would have e.g.:

Finance\Liar's Poker - Michael Lewis [W. W. Norton, 1989]

I tried the following but it didn't work:

{category}/{title} - {authors} [{publisher}, {pubdate}]/{title} - {authors} [{publisher}, {pubdate}]

Is there any way I can implement this?

Many thanks for your help!

Last edited by Distorted Vision; 02-18-2012 at 03:34 PM.
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