[oldcrow74]

Originally Posted by Dopedangel

I used booksorter from here
http://iterati.org/ebookTools/BookSorter/Default.aspx
to rename all my files
author - series 00 - Title
it made calibre more accurate as it removed all the unwanted details from the filenames

But the point is that I don't want to change the filename, nor should I need to. This is a very simple string handling requirment. Calibre shouldn't be written in such a way, or using such a horribly arcane "language" such as Python, the we need to externally massage the data to get standardized filenames to be parsed correctly.