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Old 03-27-2015, 03:02 AM   #28
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I am pretty sure the aforementioned previous discussion involved you being told "your misuse of the ORIGINAL_FMT feature is not valid grounds....

yep - but wanting to not have to delete an original-FTM copy in my one & only library was pretty blatant misuse .
Sheesh- if calibre is so violently opposed to keeping original_FMT exept as a temporary conversion aid, why doesn't it go the whole way and auto purge them all once a month

file a feature request? - been there done that, dead horse flogged.

quote :calibre is all about options -- assuming the Dictator-in-Chief decides that that particular option is a good thing.

true that.

no sense prolonging this. I know I can do workarounds which break calibre integrity on other ways, like DOS command bulk renames of all orig_FMT extensions. It's a shame to have to break an otherwise well designed database , just to be able to convert from the latest epub but there you go
it would be something like this; flipping the rename line around would reverse the process:
I think it would work on all sub-folders as-is.
run
cmd
cd My Documents/Calibre Library
rename *.original_epub *.mysource

if not, then the process given here will
http://www.windows-commandline.com/r...tensions-bulk/

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