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Originally Posted by BetterRed
@Rob Burgess - it ain't gunna happen mate.
But I fail to see what the difference is between navigating a tree such as the one you suggest in the calibre tag browser and a similar tree in a file system manager. One b-tree index is much the same as the next - who cares if its in a SQLite database, an NTFS Master File Table or an HFS Attribute file.
And a file manager won't easily give you similar trees for publishers, tags, series, and any columns/properties you might want to add.
BR
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Hey BR,
My reason for wanting it actually has nothing to do with day to day usage. A couple of years ago I had a drive failure and lost my Calibre Library. I went to my Carbonite backup and for some reason they were unable to properly sync, which meant I couldn't use their restore manager to grab everything. However I could browse to what I wanted, click it, and have those files restored.
Easy.
Except that their server couldn't restore that many items in one go. If the library was stored as I wanted I could have chosen to restore "A" and then "B", etc. Instead I had to highlight a group of authors and restore them. Then find my place, highlight another group, and restore them. This made the process so much more complicated than it needed to be.
I haven't done any database programming in 20 years but I don't recall it being that difficult to parse the first letter of a word (author's name) and include that in the file structure. But I guess I'm in the minority. So I save a copy of my library outside of Calibre and use that for backups.
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Rob