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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I think you may have an exaggerated idea about the extra space taken up by the additional folders and subfolders. There is overhead because of the metadata.opf and the cover.jpg files and I myself have no use or liking for these files. But the benefits of calibre far outweigh the minor inconvenience of copying or deleting all of these files if I want to make a backup.
Then again I don't have 440000 books either  Just curious, is that 440000 books with no duplicates? If not how on earth do you handle duplicate file names in one directory with out resorting to some mickey mouse method of naming them as in filename1 and filename2 etc.
Helen |
Should have said 44000(corrected it..)
The odd dup file but I do mean the odd one....
As to the additional folders and sub folders wish it was an exaggeration but calibre creates a folder adds a copy of the ebook then adds extra files!!! so I have a completely new folder with all my books in there too... I tried coping a few files to the calibre folder and again it did the same leaving the original in the folder too...so even in that folder you have two copies of each ebook...
So there's a lot of wasted space as a result....