Thread: Problem with Save to disc
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Old 04-30-2021, 02:39 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by Rida View Post

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It looks clear that calibre has for some reason squashed
That is almost definitely what calibre is doing.
Quote:
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.
The maximum path length for a file in Windows is 255 characters. If the generated path exceeds this, calibre will shorten parts of the path. And taking characters out of the middle of one of the directory names is how it normally happens.

For the second book in your screenshots, I think the full title is "Wie Obelix als kleines Kind in den Zaubertrank geplumpst ist" (found on Wikipedia after searching for the bit I could see). And prepend "German Asterix - ". Which makes your title "German Asterix - Wie Obelix als kleines Kind in den Zaubertrank geplumpst ist". The template would generate:

Code:
Goscinny, René & Uderzo, Albert/German Asterix - Wie Obelix als kleines Kind in den Zaubertrank geplumpst ist/German Asterix - Wie Obelix als kleines Kind in den Zaubertrank geplumpst ist - René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo.epub
That is 224 characters long. How long is the path name for the directory you are saving this to? If you are saving to the root directory of a drive, it should work, but, anything else might need the path shortened.

If your save-to-disk options only save the book (not the cover and OPF), you could shorten the generated path by removing the title as a separate directory. That would mean the template would be:

Code:
{author_sort}/{title} - {authors}

And as an aside, it has been a long time since I read an Asterix story. I had to translate the title to English as I didn't remember one that long. And I don't recognise it. Or the covers I found. I'll have to check my library to see if I do have it.
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