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Originally Posted by judyni
Thanks, BetterRed, for exaplaining what you do. I guess it is important to stay out of Calibre's official directory tree. How important? Would Calibre delete files?
Is support for extra files on any request list for Calibre? It was one of the first things I thought I needed...
Judy
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judyni - Don't add anything to calibres library folders via the file system, if a book folder or author is renamed or moved then any 'extraneous' files will disappear into the bit bucket. And you'll get 'errors' reported by the Library Check feature if there are any such files - and to get rid of the errors you have to delete the offending folders/files - oops
You can put almost any file type into a book folder, but only one file of each file type - ie 1 EPUB, 1 TXT file, 1 MP3, one AVI etc - even 1 EXE.
I don't know if Kovid has an 'extra files' facility on his TODO list. My impression is that he probably doesn't.
The only thing that would make my scheme a tad easier is a Browse button for the Author Link field in Manage Authors - a'la the one in the Comments Editor.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Thanks for this fascinating description, BetterRed! This does sound more robust than your 7-zip files.
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eschwartz - I'm not sure that its any more robust, the advantage of my 7z approach was that calibre would 'look after' the 7z as things got moved, copied etc,
If I were to rename one of my authorinfo folders then when I clicked on an author name in Book Details nothing will happen - not even a 404. Same with links to bookinfo folders and files in my bookinfo column. That's another reason I opted for an 'as needed' clone of the library tree, because its adjacent to the 'real thing' it forces me think before I act.
But that said its certainly more elegant and intrinsically more flexible, and having the same solution for Authors and Books makes a lot of sense.
BR