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Old 10-04-2016, 11:15 AM   #22
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How did you seem to know that it was the series name that was causing the problem?
Well, *you* told me ;-)
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What I finally found was that the files that are part of a series do not have the mangled filename, and they are prefixed by the series name followed by an underscore. The name used by the server is not the same as the filename in the library, nor is it the same as the metadata filename. This made it hard to figure out.

So, the filename as presented by the content server is: "series_Title - Author Name_nnnn.xxx", with nnnn being the number assigned by Calibre. Apparently, if there is no series, it is generating "_Title - Author Name_nnn.xxx", without detecting that the series name is blank.
Then I started to go backwards and got thinking:
What could I do in Calibre to cause it to behave this way?

It looks like the plugboard was set up not through UI, so it did not have a name to display to you. Normally when you set up a template and the tag, such as {series} is empty, Calibre discards the extra path delimiters/slashes. At least when I use the template language in the "save to disk" configuration.

I suggested that you try to set up a plugboard, so that we could see whether it has any impact on the existing problem.
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