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Old 06-27-2017, 07:27 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by dwig View Post
Personally, since calibre can loose unsupported files (e.g. *.pdf_orig, ...) residing in its folder tree, I would recommend creating a duplicate book entry giving two separate entries. Simply rename one to include "untrimmed" at the end of the title. Now use Briss, or whatever, on the original book. You will now have a stable calibre library and have both the original and that has been through the ceremony with the mohel.
Utter nonsense - if the file is added to the book via one of the several calibre features to add books and files to an existing book it will be registered in the database and it won't let lost - period. I have a several libraries (biggest is 100+K books) that prove it!

I do the following almost every day for up to 20 RTF documents:
  1. add an RTF to my Intake library (via Windows->Send To),
  2. if its a transcript of an audio or video file I will add that file to the book via drag/drop into the book details panel of just created book entry
  3. add a .ONE 'template' via drag/drop, I use this for workflow tracking, note taking etc
  4. open up RTF in Word via View Specific Format.
  5. edit the document, e.g. apply my Word Template, and apply styles etc
  6. save as DOCX into the same folder as the RTF - i.e. ..\Intake\Some Author\Some Book (123456).
  7. in calibre open the book folder (press 'O')
  8. drag and drop the DOCX to the Book details panel
  9. edit the metadata
  10. copy (with delete) the book from my Intake Library to my Main library
  11. The RTF, associated media files, .ONE file and the DOCX will be in my Main library and gone from my Intake library

The highlighted steps are critical, without them the DOCX files would not be moved to to my Main library.

You will only lose files if you have files in a book folder that haven't been added to the library via calibre. AFAIK any file type can be added to a calibre library - not just ebook formats. I have tens of thousands of audio and video files, plus lots of XLSX, PPTX, TIFF and ONE files, even some android and ios apps, and Windows LNK files in calibre library book folders.

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