[kgn]

I have a lot of books that are in Series. I have come up with a template that almost works

{author_sort[0]}/{author_sort}/{series}/{series_index:0>2s} {title} - {authors}

This actually works just fine with those books that are in Series. The problem arises with those books that are NOT in a Series. It puts a '00 ' at the beginning of every book title.

So - what I do then is use a rename program that scans for these leading '00 ' characters and renames all the files. So far so good.

This all works are far as it goes - except when I want to upload one of these files again for any reason. It uploads ok - I then have two books on the device - one with a '00 ' leading, and one with not. The problem now is that I cannot rename the files like I did before as the rename TO name already exists, so the rename fails.

I would like a way of getting around this problem. Of course I can simply grin and bear the fact that a lot of my book titles start with '00 ' and be done with it.

One way suggested to me is to make up a new tag field for those books that are not in a Series, and process those differently. This sounds ok - but how can I use a different template for these differently tagged files? Do I simply have to remember what the different templates are for each tag, or is there someway of switching templates programatically?

Currently - every so often I simply delete ALL the books on my device, and re-save the lot. This takes a long time - so I really want to get this format worked out.

Any suggestions welcomed....