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Originally Posted by Rob Burgess
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
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Rob Burgess - you probably shouldn't run carbonite concurrently with calibre, see ==>>
I am getting errors with my calibre library on a... - in particular the third paragraph.
It's still true that extracting the first letter of a string is not that hard, the problem is that everyone wants start with a different bit of string - you want author surname, someone else wants series, I'd prefer publisher. Solution - Save to Disk with a template - which I assume is what you use.
You should be able to add books from such a structure via the Add books from directory tree option that assumes the leaf nodes have ONE book.
BR