Thread: Folder Names
View Single Post
Old 09-17-2016, 01:43 AM   #13
itimpi
Wizard
itimpi ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.itimpi ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.itimpi ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.itimpi ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.itimpi ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.itimpi ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.itimpi ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.itimpi ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.itimpi ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.itimpi ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.itimpi ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 4,553
Karma: 950151
Join Date: Nov 2008
Device: Sony PRS-950, iphone/ipad (Marvin/iBooks/QuickReader)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan__ View Post
I have followed the suggestions, especially manage authors|copy author_sort to author. It did indeed in fact create new directories for many authors however, it left many author names untouched and left behind the old directories with the firstName first. The Library maintenance function does not flag any of these as not in the catalog or as potential deletes. So there is still a lot of manual cleanup required.
Do you make sure that you have Dropbox syncing paused while running Calibre? If not then Dropbox can interfere with Calibre attempts to rename (or delete) folders and files.
itimpi is offline   Reply With Quote