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PeterSm · 10-09-2013, 04:55 AM

Joining this late but I can confirm that something indeed has changed in the way that Calibre (Excellent product btw) works in the way it renames files.

Yes I know that the physical file name shouldn't be an issue with the metadata etc however like others here I use the file name for other purposes (generating webpages, database links etc ) and the file-name IS important.

having looked into this Ive too tried a few things. My Calibre library is set to write to C:\A\... so one of the shortest possible root there can be and its still truncating the filename - the longest one Ive found so far is 124 characters, well within the 256 (win 7 64 bit and XP versions) limits.

I can also now seethat having kept a few older versions that this definitely changed with the release of 1.0 as 0.9.35 does not exhibit this behavior yet everybody (including Im afraid Kovid) seems to deny its happening....

Has anybody found a solution yet please (bar going back to 0.9.35)

Thanks.

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PeterSm Member Posts: 15 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: London England Device: Kindle 4 non touch,paperwhite 10	Joining this late but I can confirm that something indeed has changed in the way that Calibre (Excellent product btw) works in the way it renames files. Yes I know that the physical file name shouldn't be an issue with the metadata etc however like others here I use the file name for other purposes (generating webpages, database links etc ) and the file-name IS important. having looked into this Ive too tried a few things. My Calibre library is set to write to C:\A\... so one of the shortest possible root there can be and its still truncating the filename - the longest one Ive found so far is 124 characters, well within the 256 (win 7 64 bit and XP versions) limits. I can also now seethat having kept a few older versions that this definitely changed with the release of 1.0 as 0.9.35 does not exhibit this behavior yet everybody (including Im afraid Kovid) seems to deny its happening.... Has anybody found a solution yet please (bar going back to 0.9.35) Thanks.