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Colonel Cathcart · 01-25-2022, 09:08 AM

Thanks, guys, for your support.
Yes, I'm sure I'm using "Books/{author_sort}/{title}" as the send-to. I copy-and-pasted it directly to the post from Calibre.
Your explanation makes (some) sense regarding the shortening of the file path. Why hasn't Calibre upped the limit of the file path length with the times and sticks to the ol' FAT32 is a question in itself.
But that doesn't explain what's going on with that other book I gave as example. In fact, most of the tens of books are stored under some shelf name: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Reference, Chess, Comics.
I have no idea why or where that came from, and as I wrote above, deleting the book and re-adding it sends it right back to the wrong place.

Edit: As a side question/observation. I've looked at the documentation, and it seems I should be able to use shorten to control how shortening the full path works so that it won't chomp off the "Books" folder.

01-25-2022, 09:08 AM	#5
Colonel Cathcart Addict Posts: 225 Karma: 340434 Join Date: Dec 2020 Location: Israel Device: Kobo Libra H2O	Thanks, guys, for your support. Yes, I'm sure I'm using "Books/{author_sort}/{title}" as the send-to. I copy-and-pasted it directly to the post from Calibre. Your explanation makes (some) sense regarding the shortening of the file path. Why hasn't Calibre upped the limit of the file path length with the times and sticks to the ol' FAT32 is a question in itself. But that doesn't explain what's going on with that other book I gave as example. In fact, most of the tens of books are stored under some shelf name: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Reference, Chess, Comics. I have no idea why or where that came from, and as I wrote above, deleting the book and re-adding it sends it right back to the wrong place. Edit: As a side question/observation. I've looked at the documentation, and it seems I should be able to use shorten to control how shortening the full path works so that it won't chomp off the "Books" folder. Last edited by Colonel Cathcart; 01-25-2022 at 10:15 AM.