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Originally Posted by Adoby
That is a big no-no! 
Metadata and covers and so on are NOT automatically updated in the books stored in the calibre library. Only author and title, and sometimes even that may be truncated. Instead metadats is stored in a central database file. The books are only updated with the new metadata and covers when you use calibre to save the books to disk or send them to device. When the books leave the calibre library in other words.
So I say again: Stay out of the calibre library! Don't copy anything from inside it. Instead use calibre to save selected books to disk or send to device, and then also use calibre to rename the books automatically for you, using the save and send to device templates. |
I would like to resurrect this thread because i am also one of those users who would like to have their library named in a different way to be able to access it also outside calibre.
Save to disk works great (well, when it works. sometimes it fails, and i filed a bug report for it, but it's another thing).
My question is: is there a way already to keep track of what books have been already saved to disk, so that one can incrementally save to disk the whole calibre library in order to have a backup, and have it in a custom-named way?
And my second question is: if not, is there an easy way to do it (e.g., by writing a plugin) without having to use a custom tag (like "non-exported", "exported") by hand?