Saving epub to disk missing letters

[LordSith77]

When I save my epubs to disk, some of the authors and series names have missing letters, making them scrambled. Example:

"J. Steven York" comes out as "J. Sten York"

Many authors come out like this, as well as various series names.

My save to disk template is thus:
{author}/{series}/{title}/{series}{series_index:0>2s| – | – }{title} - {authors}

Am I doing something wrong here?

[kovidgoyal]

That will happen when the file name/path are too long. On windows the limit is approx 250 characters.

[LordSith77]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

That will happen when the file name/path are too long. On windows the limit is approx 250 characters.

Had a feeling it would be something like that. Thanks for clarifying.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by LordSith77

My save to disk template is thus:
{author}/{series}/{title}/{series}{series_index:0>2s| – | – }{title} - {authors}

You can use the template function 'shorten()' to make the names predictable so the folder structure works. You allocate a certain number of characters to each section, then use shorten() to ensure that the allocations are respected.

For example, a template that ensures that the total length is less than around 200 characters could be:

{author:shorten(20,-,9)}/{series:shorten(20,-,9)}/{title:shorten(20,-,9)}/{series:shorten(20,-,9)}{series_index:0>2s| – | – }{title:shorten(20,-,9)} - {authors:shorten(20,-,9)}

I expect you would adjust the various shorten()s so that the output length is what you need and makes the most sense to you.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by LordSith77

When I save my epubs to disk, some of the authors and series names have missing letters, making them scrambled. Example:

"J. Steven York" comes out as "J. Sten York"

Many authors come out like this, as well as various series names.

My save to disk template is thus:
{author}/{series}/{title}/{series}{series_index:0>2s| – | – }{title} - {authors}

Am I doing something wrong here?

Personally, I would drop the leading Authors (for Series).
A number of Series I read are shared between different Authors or co-authors.
Back when I had a simple device that used only file names, I created a psudoSeries (00NoSeries to alpha-sort at the top) for those that did not belong in a series
series_index:0>5.2f allows for fractional series