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Old 08-15-2013, 07:48 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by talmage View Post
What can I do about a PDF that has a very long author list embedded in it? Calibre 0.9.42 tries to import it and gives up with the following error:

calibre, version 0.9.42
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>IOError</b>:[Errno 36] File name too long: u'/home/dtalmage/Calibre Library/Brent Rickenbach, Peter Griffin, Jason Rush, John Flanagan, Brian Adamson, Joseph P. Macker/Adaptive Data Delivery Over Disadvantaged, Dynamic Networks (85)/Adaptive Data Delivery Over Disadvantaged, Dynamic Networks - Brent Rickenbach, Peter Griffin, Jason Rush, John Flanagan, Brian Adamson, Joseph P. Macker.pdf'

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/auto_add.py", line 198, in add_to_db
File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/library/models.py", line 276, in add_books
File "site-packages/calibre/library/database2.py", line 3520, in add_books
File "site-packages/calibre/library/database2.py", line 1557, in add_format
File "site-packages/calibre/startup.py", line 165, in local_open
IOError: [Errno 36] File name too long: u'/home/dtalmage/Calibre Library/Brent Rickenbach, Peter Griffin, Jason Rush, John Flanagan, Brian Adamson, Joseph P. Macker/Adaptive Data Delivery Over Disadvantaged, Dynamic Networks (85)/Adaptive Data Delivery Over Disadvantaged, Dynamic Networks - Brent Rickenbach, Peter Griffin, Jason Rush, John Flanagan, Brian Adamson, Joseph P. Macker.pdf'

The name of the file I'm trying to import is "RickenbackerEtAl-AdaptiveDataDelivery.pdf".
See the Red?
Commas that should be & signs to separate the authors in the metadata so 'Brent' as 42 middle names
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