Question about ebook file names

[danwdoo]

Hello,
In Calibre, I have the following format under save to disk:

{authors}/{series}/{authors} - {series} {series_index} - {title}

So I added a new book (not in a series) and the name of the imported book is:

title - author

Do I have some error that is preventing it from using:

author - title

Or is there other setting I'm missing?

Thanks!

[Worldwalker]

The save-to-disc setting is for exporting books from calibre. You need the settings for reading metadata.

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by danwdoo

Hello,
In Calibre, I have the following format under save to disk:

{authors}/{series}/{authors} - {series} {series_index} - {title}

Save to disk controls the name when you export a book out of Calibre. Your problem is about importing a book into Calibre.

So I added a new book (not in a series) and the name of the imported book is:
title - author
Do I have some error that is preventing it from using:
author - title
Or is there other setting I'm missing?
Thanks!

Look in Preferences Import/Export Adding books. Decide if your imported book has internal title/author metadata or if you need to get the title/author from the filename. If it's the latter, set the regex and option switch accordingly.

[danwdoo]

Hello,
I have Calibre set to only import metadate from the filename (the other gave me endless problems) so I have the following expression on the adding books page:

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

This works perfectly because I always name new books as:

author - series - title

What I want is to have Calibre save imported books using the same basic order. Sometimes I want to give a book to my wife that is already in my Calibre database and I want her to be able to drop it strait into her Calibre without either of us having to do any file renaming. So basically straight from one instance of Calibre to another instance without chages being needed to the file is what I want. I assume there must be something else I'm missing?

[Manichean]

If you save the file from disk from your copy of Calibre and she adds the file(s) you get by that process as one book, all metadata and formats should be preserved.

[danwdoo]

Doh! That's could be a big part of my problem. I've been just opening the file location and copying the file. But when I use save to disk, I get some strange info. In Calibre, I have a book with the following info:

Authors: Christopher Anvil, series: interstellar patrol [1] title: interstellar patrol

All is correct there. But when I save it to disk, this is what I get for a filename:

McIntyre-SQ01-Starfarers.epub

Hmmm.... when I edit the book in Calibre, all the metadate listed is correct. I'm guessing it's pulling this from the file itself? In save to disk, my set options are:

1) Save cover separetly
2) Update metadata in saved copies
3) save metadate in POF file
4) convert non-english characters
5) file formats is set to all
String is: {authors}/{series}/{authors} - {series} {series_index} - {title}

Is it number 2 that is causing issues here?

[danwdoo]

Ok, this is embarrassing. Turns out it was working all the time, I had another epub in the folder and the windows wasn't refreshing properly. I double checked it and the file name was perfect. Now I know to just use the save to disk and everything is perfect.

Sorry for the confusion!