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Originally Posted by American_Desi
When I go to Preferences/Import-Export/Saving books to disk, I get something that looks like what I want, but what I have there doesn't seem to match what Calibre is doing (screenshot below)
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This preference is for saving books to the disk when you use "Save to disk" function from the right-click menu.
You can not change how the Calibre saves the books to its library folder. We have had this discussion numerous times here. Not possible. Out of question. Calibre has milions of users and has version for Windows, Mac, Linux. There is also FreeBSD port but appears to be older version. You can even use Library created on one operating system under another one (or at very least do an import).
You are supposed to treat the library as a black box and only access the files through the Calibre interface. When you want to have a subset of your books for export to a device, for example, you use "save to disk" function or "send to device" function. Calibre interface is much more powerful for working with books than any file manager. The books are in individual files, with cover images and metadata.opf file only to make the system more robust in case something catastrophic happens - like disk corruption, irreparable crash of Calibre database or whatever. It is not supposed to be accessed by user under normal circumstances.