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Originally Posted by chaley
@PatNY: this is complicated. The "Use book ID as filename" option came about because apps like moon+ can sync reading position across devices, but only if the book file name is exactly the same. The book ID is guaranteed to be the same as long as the books come from the same library. Nothing else is.
When you send books using the wireless device you use the template defined there. If you pull a book over the content server, you get a form of "author - title" that isn't guaranteed to be the same as generated by the template, especially if the names are long. Checking the "Use calibre's file names" helps but does not guarantee the names will be identical because the content server might not be running using the same config as the calibre GUI. And to make matters worse, the new "cloud" connection can not respect that option in any event.
My recommendation: if consistency is important for some reason such as syncing then the only real solution is "Use book ID". The downside is that the file names are useless, but that doesn't bother me because I never see them.
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Hi Charles,
I was afraid of an answer like this. I really don't want to use the book ID because (a) it makes it difficult to clean up folders and directories. For example, when you delete from Moon Reader a book which was previously synced, its sync file remains in dropbox. Over time, the dropbox folder may compile lots of obsolete files that would be hard to identify, and (b) if I move titles from one calibre library to another, which I tend to do with magazines, they would get new Book IDs, and a title could cease to sync with the same title on another device that was imported earlier from the previous calibre library.
My preference is still to use just simple Title-Author. Without any book number or Book ID. IOW, I would uncheck
both options under "File Names" in CC's preferences. However, I did some testing and noticed with both options unchecked and using the "wireless" connection, a book number is still being given to the file name. Is that intended? It does say if unchecked, CC will use the template Title-Author which I take to mean
only that.
So is it possible to get just Title-Author all the time whether I use wireless or the content server? I use both about equally.
--Pat