If I change the title or author of a book, which has a book file open in an editor then I get a message
If I click OK, the metadata is changed but the book folder remains as it is. Now I have a book whose Title and Author in the Database don't match with the Author and Book folder names or the book files
Imagine I have "Bring Out The Bodies" by "Hillary Mantell" as a PDF. I open the PDF and see that its actually "Bring Up The Bodies" by "Hilary Mantel" so I immediately change the Title and Author and get the message above. If I click OK then I will be able to read some more of the book, and attach a couple of stickies and save it, it will be written to
Hillary Mantell/Bring Out The Bodies/Bring Out The Bodies - Hillary Mantell.pdf
Now if I save the PDF to the desktop I get a file named "Bring Up The Bodies - Hilary Mantel.pdf" - if I copy that version back to calibre I will have two files in the Hillary Mantell/Bring Out The Bodies folder
Code:
Bring Out The Bodies - Hillary Mantell.pdf
Bring Up The Bodies - Hilary Mantel.pdf
On a database check (second step) the first file will be flagged as an extra format - which I can delete. But I still have the anomaly of the folder names Hillary Mantell/Bring Out The Bodies.
It's all very confusing
I suggest that the error message have a Cancel option, which would be the default, and if its chosen then the Calibre Title and Author remain as is and conformant with the existing folder and book file names.
Then the user can close the book file, then correct the title and author, so that the Calibre database, the folder names, and file names are all in accord with one another.
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