files are being automatically renamed ruining links.

[user743]

All the html files in a AZW3 book previously edited get renamed to 0001 0002 0003 ….
cousing all links from one file to another not to work and produce a error.
and they werent yet in order, so i dont know how order it, with the names gone.

also the affect of "fix html" happens adding body and html tags (- no problem).

All the files are backed up so no worry about ruining them, but starting from scratch doesn't help - the same thing happens again.

automatically fix html when opening is not on, i checked.

calibre portable 1.35 Windows 7

[eschwartz]

AZW3 does not support internal filenames.

[user743]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

AZW3 does not support internal filenames.

can you elaborate. I've never heard that before and if so how do you link files.

also why when right clicking on a file is there a option to rename the file. (which for some reason stoped working with the last update.)

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by user743

can you elaborate. I've never heard that before and if so how do you link files.

also why when right clicking on a file is there a option to rename the file. (which for some reason stoped working with the last update.)

According to my understanding, EPUB is a renamed .zip whereas mobi7/8 is some sort of database. Each html "file" is stuck within that database.

What that means is each file is interpreted as part0001.html etc. and cannot be changed. At the very least saving the book will undo it all.

I do not know why calibre munged your links instead of updating them.

[DiapDealer]

eschwartz is correct. No internal filenames in an AZW3. No "files" at all in an AZW3. Just records in a binary database. calibre-edit just unpacks the binary into an oebps type structure that makes it easy to edit. Any filenames are manufactured by calibre-edit and will be re-manufactured each time the AZW3 is unpacked for editing. I'm guessing the latest update stopped allowing you to rename the files because it's pointless to do so--broken links or not.

Also, new html files are created by calibre-edit from the internal kindle markup contained in the AZW3 each time it's edited (and turned back into proprietary markup when it's saved).

The thing to remember about "editing" AZW3s is that they're not epubs with "files" that can be simply edited and saved. What you are actually doing is creating new source code, editing that, and then recompiling that source code back into a proprietary binary file each and every time you edit.