Thread: Forma Dropbox on Forma not all it’s cracked up to be
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Old 10-08-2019, 06:54 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by MGlitch View Post
I’ll try this though I suspect it’s the extension itself that causes issues. The files are on Dropbox either way as .kepub or .epub it’s just the kobo end that has issues.
The kobo end requires .kepub.epub as the end of the filename to trigger use of the ACCESS renderer. .kepub is only used as the file extension in calibre to allow having the original epub and the kepubified epub versions of an ebook without both showing as epubs. That is, Gerald Durrell - The Corfu Trilogy.epub would be opened with RMSDK while Gerald Durrell - The Corfu Trilogy.kepub.epub would be opened with ACCESS. A Kobo ereader has no idea of what to do with Gerald Durrell - The Corfu Trilogy.kepub since it does not use .kepub as the filename extension.

Books synced directly from Kobo don't bother with a filename extension, the filename looks like a GUID—i.e. 6ec1549e-6c6e-4432-a5ef-f56f5711674e—though the files are stored in a directory called kepub.

Edit: I just tested jackie-w suggestion about using the save to directory on the KTE drivers extended tab and it does work but you need to send the books to a Kobo ereader with the KTE driver to get those files left in the directory. I'm really not sure how you got .kepub files in your calibre library since the only way I got .kepub files left in the calibre library was using the Kepub Output plugin and converting to kepub.
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