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Originally Posted by theducks
I suspect automatic PATH shortening is taking place.  count the characters in the whole path.
First of all, decide if Authors or Series is your sort choice. You can't really have it both ways when a Series has more than a single (overall) Author.
Do you really need ISBN as the file name? ISBN is in the metadata |
Hey G'day,
Thank you for the courtesy of a reply. You've misunderstood what I'm asking for totally..
Firstly I want the ISBN because its right there in my face when I look at the file name, I don't particularly want to open Calibre every time I want to see quick information.
It has nothing to do with path shortening, we are allowed 260 characters in a file name nowadays.
The DOS days are long gone when we were limited to 8 characters only for a file name.
So I'm making full use of file names for as much information to be displayed as is practicable all well under the 260 character limit.
Secondly you may have answered my question already that you can't have Authors and their full series in a Save To Directory in the one directory or can you?
Which to me is a little crazy and not good house keeping.
David Gemmel as per my example died halfway through writing the third book in the series, his Wife finished it. So if I ask Calibre or any other database to write to disk I would like David Gemmel and what he has written to be place in One directory not multiple directories.
eg I don't give a toss if his wife co authored the third and final book, she doesn't deserve a directory of her own
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The only exception I make to this rule is the Star Trek Star Wars etc genre where you have many books many authors. And they are exceptions everyone knows Star Trek / Star Wars etc very few who their authors are.
As for the main stream people will talk about author and not particularly series, or if series is mentioned who was the author, I would eat my hat if anyone bothers to even think of the possibility that a co author may exist.
There are titles where even the Editor/Publisher gets a mention and a separate directory which is even more annoying.
The database does its work ok but then when placing the hard copy it would like you to throw a book in several directions.
So if I want to see what a particular Author has written as far as series is concerned I need to use a database/Calibre!?.. to find out what all the books are.
Saving to disk as series makes no sense at all, if you have to open the directory to find out who the author is.
I will have to look at an alternative way to save the files so I can have Author/co author book name series name.
Cheers and thanks again for the reply,
Steve