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GeekyGal · 09-07-2012, 12:20 AM

I'll see your Netware 4.x, theducks, and bid a Netware 2.x through Netware 6, inclusive, (until we just gave up and went to Win networking). Of course, cutting the number of users by 75% also simplified things.

Unboggling, FWIW, my approach to the long title / path names is to put the "extra bits" of title in a custom Subtitle / Subseries Column simply to get them out of the way. I sync my Calibre libraries between Win at the office and Mac at home with Dropbox.

FWIW, I found that Mac is more tolerant of long file and path names, but that "keep it short" works best. I had had a long persistent issue with the Library Maintenance > Check Library > Match to Database generating the same "extra title" errors over and over on three books. It finally dawned that all of the books involved had very long titles. Hand shortening titles in the Mac install then re-saving cured this. That never "stuck" in the Win Install, so the errors re-populated themselves.

THANK YOU, Unboggling and the Calibre wizards for all the time and assistance. KISS, in an earlier iteration, saved me HOURs and HOURS and a nice chunk of sanity.

09-07-2012, 12:20 AM	#26
GeekyGal Enthusiast Posts: 40 Karma: 13888 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kindle FireHD, Kindle3G, iPad, MacBook, iRex Illiad (ret)	Long title / path names I'll see your Netware 4.x, theducks, and bid a Netware 2.x through Netware 6, inclusive, (until we just gave up and went to Win networking). Of course, cutting the number of users by 75% also simplified things. Unboggling, FWIW, my approach to the long title / path names is to put the "extra bits" of title in a custom Subtitle / Subseries Column simply to get them out of the way. I sync my Calibre libraries between Win at the office and Mac at home with Dropbox. FWIW, I found that Mac is more tolerant of long file and path names, but that "keep it short" works best. I had had a long persistent issue with the Library Maintenance > Check Library > Match to Database generating the same "extra title" errors over and over on three books. It finally dawned that all of the books involved had very long titles. Hand shortening titles in the Mac install then re-saving cured this. That never "stuck" in the Win Install, so the errors re-populated themselves. THANK YOU, Unboggling and the Calibre wizards for all the time and assistance. KISS, in an earlier iteration, saved me HOURs and HOURS and a nice chunk of sanity.