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Originally Posted by BetterRed
@A Lurker - if it doesn't exist, an author folder is only created for the first author name of a book. So, if you add a book by "John Smith & Jane Doe", both authors will appear in the tag browser but there will only be one author folder named "John Smith". And that's been true since i started using calibre in 2012. This linkages between a book and its authors is maintained in the database, not the folder structure; it's just a convenience store for format files, display covers, and metadata backup files.
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Perhaps that's true now, but I'm certain that wasn't always the case. In the past the Calibre-generated always folders included both names. I have tons of older folders created by Calibre that do have both authors' names. I could provide 50 examples as proof.
Which reminds me... In the past, when Calibre created the actual .mobi file, the file name would also always include both authors' names. But that's no longer happening either. Now the file name only has the first author.
However, these two issues in-and-of-themselves are not a problem. Ultimately I don't care about the folder name or the file name. They could have one, both or no author names and it would make zero difference to me. All I care about is that both authors' names are in the .mobi file's metadata so that both names display when the ebook is on my Kindle. Currently, that's not the case.
The only reason I'm mentioning that Calibre is no longer including both authors in the folder and .mobi file names is in case those issues are related to (or a symptom of) the problem of Calibre no longer preserving both authors' names in the ebook metadata.
If those issues are unrelated, then we can forget about them -- I don't care about folder or file names. But if those issues are related, then they might help us figure out and solve the problem of the missing eboook metadata.
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
@A LurkerI don't use MOBI files on Kindles, so I can't help with the main issue.
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Thank you for taking the time to read and respond to my thread. I appreciate it.