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Originally Posted by nono01
I just want to use Caliber to download metadatas and batch rename the files properly. I don't want to be dependant of this software, despite its qualities. It is really brilliant and this is the only criticism i can make about it.
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But if you are going "under the hood" so to speak and renaming things at the os level you are breaking all links to calibre.
If you just want to download metadata then rename the files in batch and maintain the files at the os level you should use calibre to do those functions, save the resulting changes to disk then remove them from calibre if you don't wish to have that disk space used by calibre controlled named files.
I know when I first used calibre I had a natural resistance to not being able to control the naming of the files but I soon overcame that.
The best way for a control freak library owner such as myself is to treat all those files under my library directory as a black hole. It is the ultimate library backup.
I save my books etc that are going to my device in a "to android" folder which I can rename to my hearts content. The duplication of space is no big deal, I make sure these directories are on different drives and treated my calibre library as my backup.
I will say that the more I used calibre the more I was impressed with the functions of calibre and felt the need to delve into the directory structure less.