Thread: How to see / find path and file used to import?
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Old 02-12-2020, 03:06 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by stumped View Post
there's a sort of cheat, if you want to ensure that calibre keeps an original. Do a conversion to same format in calibre before doing anything else to the file, so that a title.original_whatever file is created, then be careful not to delete that. It's not an approved use of original format, K says somewhere that it is not meant to be relied upon as a backup, but it may help. Also, not sure if you can do that with .docx, it works for AZW and EPUB which are the formats I use.
otherwise you need to create a column or use a comments field or a tag
He's talking about the original file name outside of Calibre. For example, if I download War and Peace from project Gutenberg I get the file pg2600.epub on my hard drive. Dragging that into calibre produces the file War and Peace - graf Leo Tolstoy.epub inside Calibre's library directory. Nothing in Calibre says anything about pg2600.epub.
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