Possible (slight) improvements

[Francois_C]

Calibre is getting so perfect that I hardly dare to suggest such tiny improvements, from my longtime user experience.

- I think that the "Remove from device" command should be grouped with "Send to device"; all other "remove" commands are about the Calibre library on the HD. This would be (yet) safer. This is easy.

- I often load epubs in my Calibre library, then consider they are poorly built, an rebuild them, generally extracting the HTML with style-sheets, then converting them to ODT or DOCX. Everything in the same folder, but unbeknownst to Calibre. I wish there were a possibility for taking into account these new files that were not built by Calibre without dropping my ODT into Calibre again and creating a new folder. Maybe more difficult.

I love the new editor. Only the two message windows are not yet perfectly handy. Maybe new buttons, e.g. for automated fixes would help?

Thank you again for the fantastic work.

[theducks]

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[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Francois_C

I wish there were a possibility for taking into account these new files that were not built by Calibre without dropping my ODT into Calibre again and creating a new folder. Maybe more difficult.

@Francois_C - Drop the new ODT on the Book Details panel of the book in question and any existing ODT will be overwritten. Sorry if I've misunderstood.

BR

[Francois_C]

@TheDucks:
Sorry for posting in the wrong place.
@BetterRed:
I tried, but it did not work. What I meant is I have the (probably bad) habit of creating an ODT file from an epub inside the Calibre Library folder with only the epub registered by Calibre, and I would like to be able to register the new ODT in the same folder instead of creating a new entry.
Thanks.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Francois_C

@TheDucks:
Sorry for posting in the wrong place.
@BetterRed:
I tried, but it did not work. What I meant is I have the (probably bad) habit of creating an ODT file from an epub inside the Calibre Library folder with only the epub registered by Calibre, and I would like to be able to register the new ODT in the same folder instead of creating a new entry.
Thanks.

Do not let a third party (program) create any new format INSIDE the library structure. Use 'Save As' to create to an outside folder. Then drag the book to the Details pane and it will add the format

[mbovenka]

Originally Posted by Francois_C

@TheDucks:
Sorry for posting in the wrong place.
@BetterRed:
I tried, but it did not work. What I meant is I have the (probably bad) habit of creating an ODT file from an epub inside the Calibre Library folder with only the epub registered by Calibre, and I would like to be able to register the new ODT in the same folder instead of creating a new entry.
Thanks.

Yep, that's a bad habit . Don't do that. The Calibre library is Calibre's domain; don't mess with it outside it except in dire circumstances.

Like theducks says, save the ODT outside the library and drag & drop or 'add to record' the resulting file.

[BetterRed]

I've been doing the following for a couple of years, I do it several times every day, on most days of the week. Prior to support for .DOCX in calibre core, I used the DOCX Input PI, prior to that I used .DOC.

Where 'whatever' is a calibre book list entry

• convert 'whatever'.xxx (PRC, MOBI, TXT etc) to 'whatever'.RTF
• open 'whatever'.RTF in Word via View - press 'v', select RTF
• save 'whatever'.RTF as 'whatever'.DOCX in Word.
  
  Save is in the same folder as the RTF (ie the calibre library\author\book (nn) folder) with exactly the same file name as the RTF. That is the default behaviour for Word's Save As feature - ie same location, same file name with another extension.
  
  It is important that the file name is the same, if I were to change it I would end up with an extra .DOCX in the book folder and Library Check would subsequently complain
• close 'whatever'.DOCX in Word - if I don't the file will remain locked
• from calibre, open the book folder for the 'whatever' book in Windows Explorer (WE) - press 'o'
• drag the 'whatever'.DOCX file from the WE window to the 'whatever' Book Details panel and drop it - if the file is locked calibre will pop an error message
• close the WE window
• calibre now has a registered DOCX format for the 'whatever' book
• open 'whatever'.DOCX in Word via View to edit the contents

I never vary my process, I execute the steps contiguously and swiftly. I've never needed to restore a library from backup, I never get any errors from check library etc etc.

I can't see any reason why this process would work for me with RTF and DOCX files in Microsoft Word (Windows and NTFS), and not for someone else using say TXT and ODT files in OOo Writer. If it doesn't then its a defect or a deficiency in Writer, the OS or file system being used - which would surprise me.

BR