Thread: Potential problems with long file names
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Old 03-23-2013, 10:03 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by tshering View Post
I am not planning to put that many books on my Touch. But if I were in this situation, I would try to set the ImageID in the database of several books to the same value in order to make them share the same groupe of images. I would start with those epubs that have cover images showing the first page of text, since almost all of these cover images are useless for me. If there would be the need to save even more file names, I would dispense with other covers images too, since I am not much interested in them anyway.
Two things I haven't tried before but worked with the tests I just did:

- If you don't care about the covers, you can set the ImageId to null. This will use the text cover with just the title and type of book on it. No images are stored for them.

- Ages ago someone, PeterT I think, suggested using subdirectories in the images folder. That needs a change to add a slash somewhere in the ImageId and moving and renaming the image files appropriately. I have never gotten around to testing it until now, but it seems to work.

As with the other solutions, they need manual intervention but automating them wouldn't be to hard.
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