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dkperez · 02-07-2015, 07:13 AM

Sorry to drag up this old thing AGAIN, but I've got something goofed up with the "Send to Device"...

I HAD Calibre set up so it put my books within an author folder on my Nexus 7. Worked FINE. I recently installed a new O/S on the PC (Win 8.1), and re-installed Calibre. Now all my books are going in by title (I think)...

Went into Calibre to change the "Send to Device" preference and I cannot figure out how to get it back to storing the books within the author (last name, first name) folders. I went back and the original preference is set to:

{author_sort}/{title} - {authors}

which gets me books on the Nexus by "title - author.epub" and no author folders

I looked at the reply by DoctorOhh and changed the setting to:

{author_sort}/{author_sort}/{title} - {authors}

but that STILL gets me books by title then author and no folders.

So, BACK to the DoctorOhh entry and grabbed the OTHER choice there:

{author_sort}\{author_sort}-{series:||-}{series_index:05.2f||-}{title}

and put THAT in the preference just to see if I could get ANYTHING to change. As near as I can tell, I STILL get anything I send to device just dumped in the Books folder by title then author...

I've now been looking for a couple hours, using whatever search string I could thing of, and still haven't found the thing I need in the preference...
How do I get this thing BACK to putting my books in folders by author?

02-07-2015, 07:13 AM	#6
dkperez Groupie Posts: 184 Karma: 1047931 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: nine	Sorry to drag up this old thing AGAIN, but I've got something goofed up with the "Send to Device"... I HAD Calibre set up so it put my books within an author folder on my Nexus 7. Worked FINE. I recently installed a new O/S on the PC (Win 8.1), and re-installed Calibre. Now all my books are going in by title (I think)... Went into Calibre to change the "Send to Device" preference and I cannot figure out how to get it back to storing the books within the author (last name, first name) folders. I went back and the original preference is set to: {author_sort}/{title} - {authors} which gets me books on the Nexus by "title - author.epub" and no author folders I looked at the reply by DoctorOhh and changed the setting to: {author_sort}/{author_sort}/{title} - {authors} but that STILL gets me books by title then author and no folders. So, BACK to the DoctorOhh entry and grabbed the OTHER choice there: {author_sort}\{author_sort}-{series:\|\|-}{series_index:05.2f\|\|-}{title} and put THAT in the preference just to see if I could get ANYTHING to change. As near as I can tell, I STILL get anything I send to device just dumped in the Books folder by title then author... I've now been looking for a couple hours, using whatever search string I could thing of, and still haven't found the thing I need in the preference... How do I get this thing BACK to putting my books in folders by author?