[Rida]

Thank you very much for replying, theducks.

Originally Posted by theducks

Where are you looking?

I'm looking in calibre Preferences>Saving books to disc (to check that the Save template is correct). I haven't changed it, so it looks like this, as expected:


I'm looking in calibre's Edit metadata window for each of the two books. They both say "Goscinny, René & Uderzo, Albert" in the Author sort box:




I'm looking in Windows File Explorer at the folders I saved to disc:

Originally Posted by theducks

STD is for exporting to OTHER devices or media.

I'm not sure that's entirely true, is it?

I had some books that I didn't want in calibre anymore. I might put them back later but for now I just wanted to delete them entirely from calibre.

So I saved them to disc on my own device in a folder (called Deleted from calibre) separate from the calibre library folder. Then I deleted the books from calibre.

Even if, say, I wanted to give a copy of a book to someone else, surely I can save that book to a folder on my own device before I put it on a USB drive or whatever?

So I don't think STD is ONLY for exporting to OTHER devices or media, and anyway, it's pretty clear that something is going wrong, right?

Originally Posted by theducks

AFAIK There is only one template active, unlike Save to Device (STD), where each CONNECTED device family can have a different template.

I don't really understand this and, given the above, I don't think it's relevant here. I'll happily answer this bit if you think it's necessary.

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It looks clear that calibre has for some reason squashed

Goscinny, René & Uderzo, Albert
into
Goscinny, Renderzo, Albert

for one of the books, hence my original post.

It's an oddity, so I wondered:

am I doing something wrong or
is calibre doing something wrong or
is something 'corrupted' about one of the files or within calibre?

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I'm only showing you two books, but in fact there are 15 books. Fourteen of them happily go into the
"Goscinny, René & Uderzo, Albert" folder

The other rogue book goes into the
"Goscinny, Renderzo, Albert" folder.

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PS.
In order to write this reply, I had to re-add the books to calibre. I did wonder if that process would somehow fix the problem - which would have annoyed me because it would make it look like there was never a problem in the first place, when in fact (at least to me at this point) there is clearly some sort of glitch that is not visible until after I have saved the books to disc. This raises the question "which other books in my library have the same problem?"

But re-adding the books, and then re-saving them to disc produces the same result.

I'll be very grateful if you or anyone else can identify what's happening and let me know your findings.

I feel fairly confident that kovidgoyal would find this interesting and would probably be able to enlighten me pretty quickly. Is it possible to tag our hero [my goodness, I love calibre - and I am a Patreon donor] in a post and, even if it is, would that be rude?