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Originally Posted by Lauraq
On sex: it was just in case you remember that the author is female, I don't understand the absurdity of your reasoning
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I'm tempted to ask how your current search using "Everything" for instance would be able to find female authors given that Everything searches on file name. Are you entering the author gender in the file name? As I mentioned, one friend of mine does use custom columns for that type of information in calibre and, again as already mentioned, I find the gender/ethnicity/etc. of the author to be irrelevant. Either they wrote a story that I want to read or they don't. A simple binary solution.
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Originally Posted by Lauraq
About the music: No, I meant the name of the file, not the program that organizes them for you. All my life I have always seen songs renamed to
Author - Title or Author - Album title - title
but maybe i'm weird me and everyone I know  |
And I don't care what the file name is. I can find the song and play it using calibre search without having to think about the file name. If I want to save a set of music files outside of the calibre library, I use a template that generates the file names.
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Originally Posted by Lauraq
On Windows and Mac: I admit my total ignorance on the subject, I just pointed out that Caliber's potential problems should also have them, for example, Photoshop ... but they are probably different and therefore you are right. I didn't think it was so difficult to differentiate names  |
I've seen issues with Adobe products, filenames and paths. In most cases due to case sensitivity. Depending on how you configure your Mac file system, you can enable or disable case sensitivity. So on one Mac, Picture.psd is considered the same file as picture.psd while on another Mac, they are considered as different files.
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Originally Posted by Lauraq
well .... if I remember part of the title and that part of the title has been truncated, I will never find it. I say this because I find it much more comfortable, in research, to use a program called "Everything". Caliber I find it messed up. In Caliber I have created many archives, for example
Books about music
Classic Books
Contemporary books
Poetry
and more.
I often find myself having to open multiple archives to find the book I'm looking for, with Everything I find it in 1 second. But, even then, I'll be crazy (that's ironic) |
For books I have two libraries. Intake where books get imported, updated, edited, etc. and Main where the books get moved after the import workflow has been completed. Within Main, I use virtual libraries to save me having to have multiple libraries. Think of a virtual library as a saved search that defines a sublibrary. I.e., instead of having a library for computer related books, I have a virtual library for them.