Sprting, Newbie Question

persiphone · 01-03-2012, 11:56 PM

I have went through and cleaned all my files up they are all set up like this example: <Author><Book Title or Series Name><Book> and then the different output files are in their own each individual folder (example harry potter sorcerer's stone is one folder and then chamber of secrets all in it's own folder), so my question is that some of my actual file names are transferring over to calibre all crazy, some have titles out of place and some don't have titles at all, is there a way I can have calibre pull over the information according to the folder arrangement I have or do I need to change each file as well?

theducks · 01-04-2012, 07:19 AM

Calibre import (Add Books) does not pull any part of the folders path other than file name
(path blind) for use as metadata if you are using that Add option

You should look at the Preferences: Adding Books

My REGEX template has:

Code:

(?P<author>[^_-]+) -?\s*(?P<series>[^_0-9-]*)(?P<series_index>[0-9]*)\s*-\s*(?P<title>[^_].+) ?

as one of the options (Note: I may have used this sometime or in may be a pre-loaded to be in the History. Check the pull-down or roll your own.)

01-03-2012, 11:56 PM	#1
persiphone Enthusiast Posts: 28 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: KY Device: Sony PRS-505	Sprting, Newbie Question I have went through and cleaned all my files up they are all set up like this example: <Author><Book Title or Series Name><Book> and then the different output files are in their own each individual folder (example harry potter sorcerer's stone is one folder and then chamber of secrets all in it's own folder), so my question is that some of my actual file names are transferring over to calibre all crazy, some have titles out of place and some don't have titles at all, is there a way I can have calibre pull over the information according to the folder arrangement I have or do I need to change each file as well?

01-04-2012, 07:19 AM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,201 Karma: 60406678 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Calibre import (Add Books) does not pull any part of the folders path other than file name (path blind) for use as metadata if you are using that Add option You should look at the Preferences: Adding Books My REGEX template has: Code: (?P<author>[^_-]+) -?\s(?P<series>[^_0-9-])(?P<series_index>[0-9])\s-\s*(?P<title>[^_].+) ? as one of the options (Note: I may have used this sometime or in may be a pre-loaded to be in the History. Check the pull-down or roll your own.)

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