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Old 01-09-2018, 06:12 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by nrcastillop View Post
Hello! I want to know if there's a way for me to know which formats are the original format (the ones I imported to my Calibre library) and which ones are conversions made by Calibre. If there is not an automatic way, I'd like to know how I can add a note to comment about this somewhere that doesn't change the original files. Since I have retail versions of my books, I'd like to not tamper with them in any way, but since I always either convert from epub to azw3 or vice-versa, I don't know which one of the two is the original. That is not really working for me because for archiving/backup purposes I'd like to know which one of them is the original file. Thanks!
To 'automate' for new books you can use the GetFileName optional plugin to record the file extension used when a book is created in a custom column.

On Windows, for existing books you should be able to work it out by sorting the book folders content into Created Date order - the earlier date should be the format you added. Linux and OSX file systems don't retain a Created Date property.

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