How use folder name lika field "series" ?

crnirg · 02-23-2025, 03:24 PM

I apologize if it was somewhere on the forum - I tried to find it but I couldn't.

I have several books outside the Caliber library that are in the folder that represented the series and inside the folder a book in the following format:

_01 SF BORIS\Boris D - Calypso.epub

and now I would like to enter these books into the Caliber library, but when adding, use the folder name as the series and the rest normally as the author and name.

I thought this would help
^(?P<series>.+?)\\(?P<author>[^_]+) - (?P<title>.+)
but in the test it works ok however when adding books there is no series.

kovidgoyal · 02-23-2025, 10:19 PM

No the adding expression only reads metadata from the filename not the full path. You are best of writing a script to either rename the files before adding to calibre or using the calibredb command to add directly.

crnirg · 02-24-2025, 05:29 PM

#kovidgoyal
Thanks for the answer - although it's a bit tedious, I did it with Total Commander and its Batch rename option.

02-23-2025, 03:24 PM	#1
crnirg Connoisseur Posts: 60 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Niš, Srbija Device: TCL Nxtpaper 11, Kindle PW 2024	How use folder name lika field "series" ? I apologize if it was somewhere on the forum - I tried to find it but I couldn't. I have several books outside the Caliber library that are in the folder that represented the series and inside the folder a book in the following format: _01 SF BORIS\Boris D - Calypso.epub and now I would like to enter these books into the Caliber library, but when adding, use the folder name as the series and the rest normally as the author and name. I thought this would help ^(?P<series>.+?)\\(?P<author>[^_]+) - (?P<title>.+) but in the test it works ok however when adding books there is no series.

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02-23-2025, 10:19 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,355 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	No the adding expression only reads metadata from the filename not the full path. You are best of writing a script to either rename the files before adding to calibre or using the calibredb command to add directly.

02-24-2025, 05:29 PM	#3
crnirg Connoisseur Posts: 60 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Niš, Srbija Device: TCL Nxtpaper 11, Kindle PW 2024	#kovidgoyal Thanks for the answer - although it's a bit tedious, I did it with Total Commander and its Batch rename option.

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