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Old 08-31-2014, 03:48 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
After a few tries (communication failures, sqlitebrowser crashes, device resetting to "welcome to Kobo" status, etc.) I think I managed to do it.

Checking cover directories, I found a few *.parsed file that should not be there (the books had been moved to the SD card). It looks like the device (or calibre) didn't remove them automatically, and the common feature I see is all of them have an apostrophe in the filename. Of course, an apostrope or quote is probably more dangerous than spaces in filenames, so I wonder:

a. Why doesn't calibre avoid them?

b. Was I just unlucky or is this maybe a sign of a bug in the firmwar (3.5.0) or in calibre?
I've done some testing. It seems that the device has only one problem with an apostrophe in the file name. It can load the book ok and generate and use the cover image. But when I deleted the book using the device, the cover images were not deleted. Calibre had no problem doing this.

The drivers in calibre handle file names. There is a default set of character to replace, but the drivers can override this. I'll add the apostrophe to ones that get changed.
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