Filenames vs Calibre vs calibre2opds

Gozer404 · 05-10-2018, 04:33 AM

Hi all,

a small description of my problem:

my calibre library is quite old and had to face a lot of changes in the way the data fields are configured: now it is stabilized with Author and Title being all in "book format" (ie each first letter is in big caps)
I use the calibre2opds tool to convert to html and upload all files (through ftp) to a web server

I've discovered that some of the file names inside the calibre tree (on a windows 7 machine) are not capitalized correctly and thus when using the uploaded html files I have some files not found (for example: "Sacrifice - Armstrong,Kelley.epub" but the file copied is "sacrifice - armstrong,kelley.epub")

=> is there a configuration option or a plugin to rename correctly on disk inside the calibre tree the filenames ? It may be linked to windows not seeing the difference between FOO.EXT and Foo.ext ?

theducks · 05-10-2018, 05:17 AM

You got it! Windows is case insensitive. Changing just the case will not cause windows to rename the file.

AFAIK there is no bullet proof (Windows) solution. All CAPS is so MSDOS era naming

05-10-2018, 04:33 AM	#1
Gozer404 Member Posts: 21 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: France Device: SONY PRS-T2	Filenames vs Calibre vs calibre2opds Hi all, a small description of my problem: my calibre library is quite old and had to face a lot of changes in the way the data fields are configured: now it is stabilized with Author and Title being all in "book format" (ie each first letter is in big caps) I use the calibre2opds tool to convert to html and upload all files (through ftp) to a web server I've discovered that some of the file names inside the calibre tree (on a windows 7 machine) are not capitalized correctly and thus when using the uploaded html files I have some files not found (for example: "Sacrifice - Armstrong,Kelley.epub" but the file copied is "sacrifice - armstrong,kelley.epub") => is there a configuration option or a plugin to rename correctly on disk inside the calibre tree the filenames ? It may be linked to windows not seeing the difference between FOO.EXT and Foo.ext ?

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05-10-2018, 05:17 AM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 30,888 Karma: 59840450 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	You got it! Windows is case insensitive. Changing just the case will not cause windows to rename the file. AFAIK there is no bullet proof (Windows) solution. All CAPS is so MSDOS era naming