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Old 06-04-2016, 07:53 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by theducks View Post
When you rename in Calibre, it does NOT do a Move with rename. I Copies the book with its new name, then deletes the old. Slower, but safer.
On my Windows 10 system with NTFS HDD a change of title to a book that has a 1,000MB+ format file takes the same time as a book with a 100KB format file, sub 1 second. If I copy that 1,000MB file it will take a 10-20 seconds at best.

If what you say is true, that the files are copied, Kovid must have found a way to overclock my hard drive

I suspect you're confusing Rename (change Author and/or Title) with Copy to Library (Delete after copy) the latter is always a copy because the other library could be on another drive.

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