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Originally Posted by Sirtel
What happens if you use the Save to Disk feature to save the books outside calibre? Are the filenames still wrong?
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To my surprise, the files come out.. ok-ish! i mean there are some titles that are shortened or omitted, but i think this has to do with the metadata more than the inner workings of calibre. i never even considered that this would work, why would saving a file again when it's already saved in the library make any difference? it seemed like a redundant extra step - i've never understood the point of the save function to begin with. a conversion implies that a new file is created and therefore saved to disk at the end. having it work this way is very strange (to me at least).
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
If all you want to do is convert, you could forego use of the library manager (aka the GUI) and use the ebook-convert command line tool ==>> Command Line Interface. This gives the user direct control over the output file name.
If you want to do the conversion within the library manager, then you need to use Save to Disk (or Send to Device) with a suitable template to create an 'output' file with a 'name' based on the metadata. See Preferences->Save to Disk and Send to Device.
You could probably automate this (i.e. do a Save to Disk immediately after a Conversion) using the Action Chains plugin
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this seems like a more streamlined solution, will have a look into the automation possibilities! thanks!
i still think it should be possible to have the library file(s) and path in the original languages characters. maybe not by default, but at least as an option. i mean imagine peoples reactions if path and file name was automatically translated to, say, cyrillic characters with no other alternatives. "what are you even doing there, you're not supposed to see this part anyway" would not be an acceptable answer. pfff.
it's also surprising that (as the first poster points out) calibre doesn't even go straight for proper romaji for japanese characters, it's via pinyin...! a very strange choice imo.
but seeing as this solved my problem, i'll leave these issues be and get to converting !