Ok so I was sorta right. Thanks for explaining it more. I think I have a basic understanding. I'll take a look at the autoadd. I had before but I didn't quite see how that work as I recall it was for things imported to a folder that Calibre polls for entries to add. Which I didn't quite grasp when the polling takes place so I thought well if it there it has to be other places.. that is the functionality. Silly me.
I looked at the plugin you suggested but unfortunately the TTS to MP3 plugin I can't do without hasn't ported to python 3 as far as I know and if I upgrade I'll lose that option. So, I'll keep puttering around and see if the AutoAdd has a video for the uninitiated to help out.
Or honestly, with my patience and attention span these days, i might be barking up the wrong tree. Cleaving out some of the content with a Russian roulette method might do me some good. Then I could hand curate the lucky ones that get to stay. it's not like the things I want to organize I can't get again if I really need them. It's just 15 years of unplanned foldering and forced imports over computer changes and poor decisions on structure many times over with no appetite to do the work to clean it out though in my flimsy excuse I think I thought on some level I'd get to it just not 14 years too late
This is turning out to be a lot more effort than I may be able to give.
Thanks everyone. If you hear swearing and other odd noises just ignore it. Any deletions are done with health and sanity of the local computer in mind.
