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Originally Posted by yogi62
Hi guys,
I have a situation where my folder structure includes folders where the name is the name of an author with a sub folder which is the name of the book - the sub folder contains all the necessary data.
Unfortunately the folder structure also contains folders that are the complete reverse. eg: the main folder is the title of the book and the sub folder is the name of the author, not only that but in some instances there is more than one subfolder each with the authors name but containing the same book in different formats.
Does anyone know of a practical way of automatically changeing the file structure so that Calibre can sort the author / book title so I can make future searches by either the book title or author.
At present imported books show a mixture of author and book title in the authors column.
I don't want to have to rename all the folders/sub folders by hand as the library is close on 2000 books!!
Any and all help appreciated  |
I had a similar situation with my initial library load on Windows. What I did I was to make file names consistent with Bulk Rename Utility (BRU) before I added them to the library, in my case it was 30,000 'books'. From memory the renaming took maybe 10-15 minutes. There's not much in regards to renaming that can't be done with BRU, I also like it because you get a preview, if you spot an anomaly you can exclude it.
The adding took a few weeks in batches of 500 books, more than that exceeded my daily capacity to update the metadata. My 'books' are not commercial publications, so there's no metadata download sources and nothing embedded that calibre can extract.
BR