I just posted a possible "bug" in the tracker, and it occurs to me that this recipe thread might be a good place to get more info on whether others see it as a bug, and/or whether my proposed solution might have problems. Here is my bug track post:
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I have many books that have good author, title and series in the filenames, but poor metadata internally. When I'm adding them, I often need to turn on the Add/Save option "Get metadata only from filename." However, if I leave that option on, it takes me literally when recipes run, ignoring the good metadata a recipe provides. It appears to use a temporary filename for the recipe-based epub in the form:
appdata\local\temp\calibre_0.6.37_idcode_recipe_ou t.epub
I realize I can turn the option off off, but if I inadvertently leave it on overnight, or a recipe runs while I'm in the midst of adding books, I have to go back and fix those books or rerun the recipes. It's happened to me numerous times.
I don't know if you call this a bug or a feature, but I'm not sure why anyone would want this option to apply to recipe-based books. I only want it to apply to manually added books.
If you agree, here is a bit of code that prevents the option from applying to ebooks having a name that includes both 'calibre' and 'recipe.' AFAICT, all recipe based ebooks have those words in their temporary name, although I haven't checked this on all recipes or any other OS beyond Windows.
You might prefer some other test, even if you agree this change makes sense.
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Does anyone else see this as a bug, or is there some reason why you would want the "Get metadata only from file name" option to apply to news recipes?