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Originally Posted by PeterT
Remember it's best to consider the calibre library folder as a black-box and not to peek under the covers. If you want to access it's contents then use the save to disk option to copy content out of it, or the calibre cli interface to query / update it from outside of the calibre gui.
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So, why is this where it is… by default:
It's been there for ever, it used to be
Path: Click to open and if that book had some supplementary files there'd be
Data files link.
You don't even have to click the link, just press 'O'.
The 'under the skirts' line seems to have been dropped from the calibre aficionados lexicon, how about they drop the "black box" term… it has obscurantist connotations.
If you wanted to append some new images to a chronological CBZ what would you do?
I would open the book folder, then open the CBZ in an archive utility, drop the new images into the CBZ, close the archive utility and the book folder, then run Count Pages to count the 'pages'. If I wanted to do a quick top and tail edit of an MP4 video, I would open the Book files folder and fire up ClipChamp or Shotcut.
The 'guidelines' are quite simple: Do not add, delete or rename any items (subfolders or files) in a calibre library folder… except files in book 'data' folders, or items that are excluded from the Library maintenance->Check library feature (e.g. on Windows: a desktop.ini or a .libinfo folder).
If people are smart enough to use calibre, they're probably smart enough to follow some simple guidelines
BR