Thread: Forma Trouble with cbz files
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Old 03-21-2019, 07:10 PM   #8
davidfor
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Originally Posted by sekazi View Post
For my CBZ files what I do is select all of the JPG files named 00000.jpg to 99999.jpg or what ever the last photo number is and create a zip file using 7-zip with no compression and rename it to cbz before it creates the file. The only special characters I use in the file name is . , ' -
If they work for you, good to know. But, I am surprised that the single quote does work. That's one I would have expected to cause trouble.

For the record, the KoboTouch driver in calibre replaces the following characters with an underscore when sending files to the Kobo devices.

Code:
/\?%*:;|"'><$!
This is only the book file name. It doesn't touch the internal file names. The reason for the removal is how the device constructs some identifiers in the database. Because of the way it does this, I would expect similar issues if these characters are used in the internal file names. But, each book format is different. The way this is done for CBZ/CBR might avoid these issues.
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