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Old 05-30-2010, 01:55 PM   #1
GlennMaples
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Import woes into .95 beta

First, great jobs on improving this app. It was not usable for my purposes (very large library) alst time I tried; now it looks much more scalable. Fantastic job!!!

1) in 6.95 the "Test" button to test regex expressions for save/edit preferences does not seem to work.

2) I am having problems with getting an assortment of file names to parse correctly. In one case there was a file name with a "curly" apostrophe. I'm guessing that this is not allowed--but even when I copied it into notepad and recopied it into back into the windows file name editor with ' the file still did not parse correctly -- shows weird character instead of apostrophe and the rest of the parse did not complete.

3) even more troubling I have a series of files from the same source. The first three file names do not parse correctly-- the second three parse correctly. As far as I can tell -- all six file names have exactly same formatting and structure.

Does anyone have a method for examining files names in windows to make sure that there are not hidden characters or symbols not allowed in Calibre?

Or any other techniques for importing files a little more robustly? I am a little frustrated that it looks like that this program is at a place where I could really start using it, but 4 out of 30 something files did not import correctly.

These are text files and I could truncate the bodies and send them out if it would help.

Thanks for any help. -glenn

Last edited by GlennMaples; 05-30-2010 at 01:57 PM. Reason: Added info
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