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Originally Posted by AndrewKantor
I'm loving Calibre (kudos to your wife on picking a good name!). But something is driving me nuts.
I have a collection of e-books. I carefully went through them and standardized the file names: Lastname, Firstname - Title.epub (e.g., Pratchett, Terry - The Color of Magic.epub).
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That was my naming scheme, too. I've just finished importing my collection into Calibre. Since your names are good, just set your regex importing expression and tell Calibre to get the author name and title from the filename.
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But when I import these into Calibre, it seems to come up with its own naming scheme.
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Calibre doesn't actually have a naming scheme of it's own. It knows the author name and the title of the book. From those (and from other optional metadata, like the series name and number), you can create any naming scheme you want. Your naming scheme is used when you export your books.
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the titles lose whatever capitalization corrections I made (e.g., "The Color of Magic" becomes "The color of magic").
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I used to see that when I fetched metadata. Fetched metadata often has bad capitalization. There is an option to prevent the author/title from being overwrittten during metadata fetch.
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It seems that Calibre is pulling the data from the file itself.
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It can also come from bad metadata inside the book.
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But is there any way to either force it to use my structure, or at least tell it to use "Lastname, Firstname" for authors?
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You can't directly change Calibre's storage structure. You shouldn't need to. If you insist, you can lie to Calibre and tell it that the author's firstname is the lastname. There is a special tweak that will assist you in doing this, while keeping the sorting structure correct (by lastname) but I haven't tried it.
You might want to read the
FAQ, particularly the section entitled:
Why doesn’t calibre let me store books in my own directory structure?¶