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Dullahir · 11-21-2023, 02:33 AM

Hey guys,
Really odd issue, and I'm wondering if anyone has run into this before.

So before I transferred these ebooks to my external hard drive for storage, I renamed them, using the 'Save Books' template: Author - Series Name # - Title.

After doing so, and trying to move them back to Calibre at a later time, (using the most recent version, by the way), EVERY SINGLE FILE is now corrupt. I can tell because the covers are missing. The whole 'Not a Valid Zip' for my epubs is also a dead giveaway.

Why is this odd? Because the only corrupted files are the ones I saved with the aforementioned template.

My guess? The added hyphen in the title is causing some issues.

Here are two examples of corrupted files:

Title: Ambrose Ibsen - House of Souls 01
Author: The House of Long Shadows
(For some reason, that was the name of the file when added to calibre)

Title: Alan Baker -
Author: Dyatlov Pass

(This shows up as Alan Baker - - Dyatlov Pass.epub in the file explorer)

Am I crazy to think that those hyphens are causing some issues? Because I'm currently looking at 318 files that I can no longer use.

Would turning off 'Read metadata from file contents rather than file name' have made a difference? Because to me, it seems like that's exactly why the ebooks imported with the author name and series in the Title field and the Title in the Author Field in the first place.

11-21-2023, 02:33 AM	#1
Dullahir Zealot Posts: 146 Karma: 13316 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Deva, Romania Device: Android	Files corrupted because they were renamed Hey guys, Really odd issue, and I'm wondering if anyone has run into this before. So before I transferred these ebooks to my external hard drive for storage, I renamed them, using the 'Save Books' template: Author - Series Name # - Title. After doing so, and trying to move them back to Calibre at a later time, (using the most recent version, by the way), EVERY SINGLE FILE is now corrupt. I can tell because the covers are missing. The whole 'Not a Valid Zip' for my epubs is also a dead giveaway. Why is this odd? Because the only corrupted files are the ones I saved with the aforementioned template. My guess? The added hyphen in the title is causing some issues. Here are two examples of corrupted files: Title: Ambrose Ibsen - House of Souls 01 Author: The House of Long Shadows (For some reason, that was the name of the file when added to calibre) Title: Alan Baker - Author: Dyatlov Pass (This shows up as Alan Baker - - Dyatlov Pass.epub in the file explorer) Am I crazy to think that those hyphens are causing some issues? Because I'm currently looking at 318 files that I can no longer use. Would turning off 'Read metadata from file contents rather than file name' have made a difference? Because to me, it seems like that's exactly why the ebooks imported with the author name and series in the Title field and the Title in the Author Field in the first place. Last edited by Dullahir; 11-21-2023 at 02:41 AM.