Where is "Use cover from source file" stored?

peekpoke · 09-06-2025, 09:40 AM

I've noticed the "Use cover from source file" on the Metadata page of Convert is kept after you change it. Next time you convert it is remembered, and I assume it's used when you do a batch convert.

Looking through the source I couldn't find an obvious place where it is read from from the calibre db, there is no change to metadata.opf, and using calibredb show_metadata --opf to list the metadata for that book shows no change. Is there a db field not stored in the opf or shown by show_metadata?

kovidgoyal · 09-06-2025, 09:45 AM

That's a conversion setting it will be stored with the rest of the conversion settings just grep for cover in the calibre config directory to find it.

09-06-2025, 09:40 AM	#1
peekpoke Enthusiast Posts: 42 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2013 Device: Kindle/Android	Where is "Use cover from source file" stored? I've noticed the "Use cover from source file" on the Metadata page of Convert is kept after you change it. Next time you convert it is remembered, and I assume it's used when you do a batch convert. Looking through the source I couldn't find an obvious place where it is read from from the calibre db, there is no change to metadata.opf, and using calibredb show_metadata --opf to list the metadata for that book shows no change. Is there a db field not stored in the opf or shown by show_metadata?

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09-06-2025, 09:45 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,484 Karma: 28005164 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	That's a conversion setting it will be stored with the rest of the conversion settings just grep for cover in the calibre config directory to find it.