In my earlier post I wrote
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Now if you open the book folder (Book Details - Click to open) and open the zip with your archiver (DONT UNZIP IT) then you should be able to click on the .lnk file inside the zip to open the referenced folder in another Windows Explorer window.
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Well that's nonsense
All you need to do is to double click the ZIP in the Book Details or Metadata panels and your archiver should open the file, then you can double click the link in the zip and your supplementary folder will open. There is no need to open the Book folder itself.
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Originally Posted by darq
looks like a powerful way to circumvent the directory limitation of Calibre.
Keep the directory structure, generate a zip or html with links and then import.
This could be done by an import script. The original files never get imported. Of course, this would break many plugins that won't find the extra files. I need to study this a bit
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I tested Conversion - it just reported Fail and left things alone. I don't have any books in ZIPs as such, and if I did I'd convert them to EPUB and RTF. So when I see a book with a ZIP Format I can be near certain it contains a shortcut to a supplementary folder. But its still a kludge - will it work in OS/X or Linux ??
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Originally Posted by Agama
 This has given me an idea. I have started on a plugin to deal with links to supplementary folders. |
Agama, I would not use a solution that required me to punch in HTML file paths as suggested by theDucks, as it would require me to maintain synchronicity with the file system.
On Windows 7 NTFS at least, my short cuts in a zip will continue to work if a path changes. Windows7/WinRAR will even offer to replace the old .lnk with a new one containing the new path. This is done via the use of the ObjectID datastream in shortcut files on an NTFS drive. I don't know whether its more robust than it was on XP, where it did not always work, but its better than 'nothing' at all.
I remain of the view that an additional Column Data Type (URI) is the best approach - that would work on X/OS, Linux & Windows - and it would allow multiple references - to a workstation file, a website, an FTP server, even a WAIS server etc :lol:
But is that 'doable' in a plugin - I wouldn't have thought so, but ...
BR