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Old 11-02-2014, 09:44 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by paoletto View Post
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?
Simple answer: NO

Your proposed, incremental method has basic flaws.

If you tag (any method) and send only once, the record (book) never gets revisited upon metadata changes that affect that book.

If you add/delete a format: No change to your archive

Calibre is a DB with tight linkage to the file system. This pair is 'A Calibre Library'. Doing stuff piecemeal, can break the linkages, leaving orphans (obsolete files/folders) or othe damage in its wake.
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