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stumped · 10-09-2019, 01:56 PM

UPDATE
a chick scan of other recently added books show the same truncation
e.g.
calibre stored a file name of
Bookburners 1.13_ Keeping Frien - Mur Lafferty
where the actual title was
Bookburners 1.13: Keeping Friends Close

same 32 character cut off before appending author to file name.

its probably always done that and because its within the calibre "blackbox" it's not noticable or an issue.
the full title is displayed in all the book details windows - only the actual file name is truncated

I stumbled across the as I had put the same book onto two tablets via 2 different routes, and moon reader was not syncing my last page read like it usually does.
so looking around on the tablets showed 2 that I had versions of the file name and tracing back from that got me to here
I think calibre companion created a not-truncated file name on tablet, but calibre box did not ( or it was vice versa )
i eliminated dropbox as an intermediary culprit as that is an exact mirror of calibre library in my documents

10-09-2019, 01:56 PM	#5
stumped Wizard Posts: 3,305 Karma: 10259306 Join Date: May 2016 Device: kobo forma, Kobo Libra, Huawei media Tab, fire HD10, PW3 HDX8.9,	UPDATE a chick scan of other recently added books show the same truncation e.g. calibre stored a file name of Bookburners 1.13_ Keeping Frien - Mur Lafferty where the actual title was Bookburners 1.13: Keeping Friends Close same 32 character cut off before appending author to file name. its probably always done that and because its within the calibre "blackbox" it's not noticable or an issue. the full title is displayed in all the book details windows - only the actual file name is truncated I stumbled across the as I had put the same book onto two tablets via 2 different routes, and moon reader was not syncing my last page read like it usually does. so looking around on the tablets showed 2 that I had versions of the file name and tracing back from that got me to here I think calibre companion created a not-truncated file name on tablet, but calibre box did not ( or it was vice versa ) i eliminated dropbox as an intermediary culprit as that is an exact mirror of calibre library in my documents Last edited by stumped; 10-09-2019 at 02:05 PM.