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Originally Posted by dwanthny
Calibre has no "renaming features" per se. Whenever any Author or Title is changed the corresponding file's name in calibre's database is renamed as needed. The problem here is that the internal naming of files has a UUID number appended and sometimes it is truncated so not to exceed path/file character limits.
I guess what I'm saying is your out of luck. Calibre just doesn't have that feature. It is such an odd request that I have seen it asked for in this forum in the last four years. Maybe you stated it clearly earlier, but what is this getting you? What is the ultimate goal? I think you may have to reconsider your work flow.
Update: One thought does come to mind. Go to Preferences - Plugins - Metadata writer plugins and disable the metadata writer for the format your dealing with, click Apply and try using the Save to disk feature again. It might give you what you want.
Good Luck.
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Your suggestion didn't work, the metadata writer plugin didn't allow configuration, but the answer lay elsewhere. I got it!!! By pure luck, but I got it. Just as I was about to call it quits, I noticed it. Go to Calibre->Preferences->Saving files to disk-> Uncheck "Update Metadata in saved copies". That's it. You can then save the file to disk neatly, with the cover and all, in its own folder, with the title in the format that I want, and keeping the file unchanged. The file is renamed but it remains unaltered (as proven by the fact that the checksum remains the same on the "saved to disk file". Just what I wanted. Case closed. Thanks for this great software.