Issues with transferring books to my Kobo Aura 2nd Edition

[Slite]

After a reinstall of my PC and hence reinstall of Calibre, it has started to behave "badly"

I have a template looking like this:

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

That has been working perfectly for years. And I checked that this template is setup in the Kobo plugins.

However, when the book is transfered to the device, but it is saved directly in the root instead of either creating a new folder or using an existing and saving the book as:

x(_P_author_[^_]__) - ((_P_series_._) (_P_series_index_[0-9]_) - )_(_P_title_._)_.kepub.epub

I thought it might be an issue of either having to many books on my device, or possible to many folders, but I tried removing a bunch of books and folders and no change.

Anyone have any ideas what could be the issue? Or at least where I can start looking?

[davidfor]

That "template" looks like a regular expression on the "Adding books" page of the preferences. That is used to extract the basic metadata from the file name when a book is added to calibre. It is not used when sending the book to a device.

If you have set the above as the save template in the driver, then it is working exactly as designed. What you have done being used as the file name. And as there are no directory names the generated file name, the books will be put in the root directory of the device.

You will need to change the save template in the whichever of the built-in KoboTouch driver or the KoboTouchExtended driver that you are using. The simplest way to do this is connect the device, wait for the device jobs to run, then right-click on the device button and choose the option to configure the driver. In the configuration dialog, the first tab has the "Save template" field. To get going, I suggest using the default template, which looks like:

{author_sort}/{title} - {authors}

That will create a subdirectory for each author and put the books into that directory as appropriate.

If you want some other structure, you can change the template to whatever is needed. And there is always someone here who can help with that.

[Slite]

I have now started writing: "I am a moron!"

1000 times as punishment! Of course i was using the wrong template, that is for importing books into my library, I had of course this one (which is my prefered format):

{author_sort}/{series}{series_index:0>2s| – | – }{title}