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badgoodDeb · 08-13-2015, 12:54 PM

Another note for the un-initiated: don't do the title prefix on Calibre on one computer, then go home and have a different Calibre import the book from the kindle again, to populate the database on that second Calibre. The book title will now have the prefix already IN the title. Not as pretty. Since I had relatively few, I spent some time fixing it up, and making the Calibre database pretty again.

Except that the files at OS level on the mac are now forever named with the prefix format, rather than the correct title. I thought of deleting the whole library, and repulling from the kindle, but won't they STILL have the prefix in the title? I saw an option to save as something else, at file level, but is it even uglier? ASIN or somesuch?

And also except that I DID wind up having to wipe the Kindle back to factory newness, and sending everything back over from Calibre (that worked nicely) because I hadn't deleted books first. I assumed that since I was only changing meta data, and not filename on the Kindle, I would be okay. Nope. I got double instances, and couldn't delete things, and ghost books. Lotsa ugly. But since it was all sideloaded safely to Calibre (and, in truth, all came from Amazon, or somewhere whence I knew of) I reset the Voyage and lost nothing but the file dates. [ In short, I had fun playing around. At 1am. ]

But now that the Voyage is back to OK (after the factory reset), I *could* delete the Calibre library, and re-import from the kindle, if there is a way to get prettier OS-level filenames. ??

08-13-2015, 12:54 PM	#45
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,544 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	Another note for the un-initiated: don't do the title prefix on Calibre on one computer, then go home and have a different Calibre import the book from the kindle again, to populate the database on that second Calibre. The book title will now have the prefix already IN the title. Not as pretty. Since I had relatively few, I spent some time fixing it up, and making the Calibre database pretty again. Except that the files at OS level on the mac are now forever named with the prefix format, rather than the correct title. I thought of deleting the whole library, and repulling from the kindle, but won't they STILL have the prefix in the title? I saw an option to save as something else, at file level, but is it even uglier? ASIN or somesuch? And also except that I DID wind up having to wipe the Kindle back to factory newness, and sending everything back over from Calibre (that worked nicely) because I hadn't deleted books first. I assumed that since I was only changing meta data, and not filename on the Kindle, I would be okay. Nope. I got double instances, and couldn't delete things, and ghost books. Lotsa ugly. But since it was all sideloaded safely to Calibre (and, in truth, all came from Amazon, or somewhere whence I knew of) I reset the Voyage and lost nothing but the file dates. [ In short, I had fun playing around. At 1am. ] But now that the Voyage is back to OK (after the factory reset), I could delete the Calibre library, and re-import from the kindle, if there is a way to get prettier OS-level filenames. ?? Last edited by badgoodDeb; 08-13-2015 at 01:01 PM.