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al35 · 04-20-2010, 01:02 PM

Hi! I suddenly realized that it's easy to lose files in Calibre. For some books, I have several versions of the book in the same format (pdf). I usually choose one version as the main file, and add everything else as a zip archive. It turns out that it doesn't work -- when adding a zip file, Calibre looks inside it and replaces the existing pdf in the book entry by the pdf from the zip file. I lost quite a few files this way before I realized what was going on.
Is this an intended feature or a bug? Is it possible to tell Calibre to treat zip files as a black box, so that it doesn't extract files from it? Generally, I think it would be a good idea if Calibre asked for confirmation any time it wants to replace one file with another.
Also, why does it compress all html to zip files?

04-20-2010, 01:02 PM	#1
al35 Enthusiast Posts: 38 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2008 Device: PRS505	Losing files in Calibre Hi! I suddenly realized that it's easy to lose files in Calibre. For some books, I have several versions of the book in the same format (pdf). I usually choose one version as the main file, and add everything else as a zip archive. It turns out that it doesn't work -- when adding a zip file, Calibre looks inside it and replaces the existing pdf in the book entry by the pdf from the zip file. I lost quite a few files this way before I realized what was going on. Is this an intended feature or a bug? Is it possible to tell Calibre to treat zip files as a black box, so that it doesn't extract files from it? Generally, I think it would be a good idea if Calibre asked for confirmation any time it wants to replace one file with another. Also, why does it compress all html to zip files?