Thread: Help with non-standard characters in directory names
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Old 07-08-2021, 06:16 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Terry Brown View Post
...Then I create the path to the cover file for a book by concatenating the library path on my Mac with the 'authors', 'title', 'id' fields taken directly from the json data.
As others have mentioned the path for the book may not exactly match the author and title fields because they may contain disallowed characters or need to be truncated.

The "cover" field has the correct full path to the cover file.
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