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Originally Posted by nepentanova
Hi better red,
After some trial and error, I have since discovered that Calibre uses author to define the folder name, not author sort.
Seems a strange choice to me. I also think that the comment in the first link "You shouldn't even be in there" when talking about the folder structure is a little naive / impractical. There are a some valid reasons why you may want to navigate to your ebook files through the files structure outside of calibre, but what do i know...
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
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You might want to read the calibre FAQ
Why doesn't calibre let me store books in my own directory structure?.
There are good and valid reasons for that structure and while I personally might have done it differently, the resulting structure would be equally unchangeable. If you really want to change the structure, feel free to modify the source code of calibre. Please note that you will also be rewriting the database management, library check and database restore code since they depend on that directory structure matching the database entries.
For the average user, modifying the directory structure is out while adding, removing and modifying files and metadata should be handled through calibre unless you have a true love for unscrambling eggs.
However, I would like to know what you would consider as valid reasons for navigating into the calibre library from outside calibre as I really can't think of any. As an example, looking for extra or missing files? calibre's check library function covers that. Just looking around out of curiosity? Fine, just don't modify anything while you are there. Manually adding or deleting files? See database inconsistency.