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frostschutz · 09-19-2019, 07:13 PM

So, this is ridiculous.

Kobo imports book from hidden .folder even though I don't want it to.

Kobo does NOT import book from NOT hidden folder. Thank you for nothing.

In libnickel there's some hardcoded stuff:

Code:

.Trash
.Trashes
.Trash-\d+

So the last one ... wait, what? Is that a regexp? Isn't . "any character" then?

So yup... it imports books from ".NotTrash/" but ignores books from "xTrash-123" (x instead . so not hidden in any way).

The whole notion of maintaining a list of folder names that should actually be treated like hidden folders is silly.

Old system was so much clearer and simpler. Starts with dot? Ignore that.

09-19-2019, 07:13 PM	#8
frostschutz Linux User Posts: 2,282 Karma: 6123806 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Heidelberg, Germany Device: none	So, this is ridiculous. Kobo imports book from hidden .folder even though I don't want it to. Kobo does NOT import book from NOT hidden folder. Thank you for nothing. In libnickel there's some hardcoded stuff: Code: .Trash .Trashes .Trash-\d+ So the last one ... wait, what? Is that a regexp? Isn't . "any character" then? So yup... it imports books from ".NotTrash/" but ignores books from "xTrash-123" (x instead . so not hidden in any way). The whole notion of maintaining a list of folder names that should actually be treated like hidden folders is silly. Old system was so much clearer and simpler. Starts with dot? Ignore that.