Help with strange file names from Calibre - Page 2

kovidgoyal · 01-24-2015, 08:45 AM

When you use Save to Disk on two (or more books) that would result in exactly the same file path (because your save to disk template, is, for example, {rating}/{title} and they have the same rating and title, then instead of overwriting one with the other, calibre will add a number in brackets to the end.

That number will increase with the number of such conflicting files, it should not be adding multiple brackets, however, that sounds like a bug. I will look at it when I have a moment.

Note that exactly the same file path means everything upto the file extension.

theducks · 01-24-2015, 09:18 AM

You re not looking at an active Library (this is probably a unused default Library)?

There should be a number of Authors folders in the EXACT same place you found the metadata.db (there should have been a line in the Authors list you show for each folder.

Is there any entries in the Books table?

LordP · 01-24-2015, 11:57 AM

@theducks

"You re not looking at an active Library (this is probably a unused default Library)? "

You are right. At one point I had the library set to my D: drive and somehow it got sent back to My Documents folder. I never looked at the date of the file I was using.

I didn't see anything strange though.

I think Kovid has a point, I can almost see one single "(1)" but not a bunch of them....really weird.

Thanks Kovid.

A big thanks to all for your interest and support.

kovidgoyal · 01-24-2015, 12:17 PM

There was indeed a bug, fixed in the next release: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...015836c5908807

LordP · 01-24-2015, 01:02 PM

Wow, that was quick.

Thanks Kovid!

01-24-2015, 08:45 AM	#16
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,260 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	When you use Save to Disk on two (or more books) that would result in exactly the same file path (because your save to disk template, is, for example, {rating}/{title} and they have the same rating and title, then instead of overwriting one with the other, calibre will add a number in brackets to the end. That number will increase with the number of such conflicting files, it should not be adding multiple brackets, however, that sounds like a bug. I will look at it when I have a moment. Note that exactly the same file path means everything upto the file extension. Last edited by kovidgoyal; 01-24-2015 at 08:50 AM.

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01-24-2015, 09:18 AM	#17
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 30,957 Karma: 60358908 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	You re not looking at an active Library (this is probably a unused default Library)? There should be a number of Authors folders in the EXACT same place you found the metadata.db (there should have been a line in the Authors list you show for each folder. Is there any entries in the Books table?

01-24-2015, 11:57 AM	#18
LordP Groupie Posts: 188 Karma: 1341124 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: Kindle 3	@theducks "You re not looking at an active Library (this is probably a unused default Library)? " You are right. At one point I had the library set to my D: drive and somehow it got sent back to My Documents folder. I never looked at the date of the file I was using. I didn't see anything strange though. I think Kovid has a point, I can almost see one single "(1)" but not a bunch of them....really weird. Thanks Kovid. A big thanks to all for your interest and support.

01-24-2015, 12:17 PM	#19
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,260 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	There was indeed a bug, fixed in the next release: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...015836c5908807

01-24-2015, 01:02 PM	#20
LordP Groupie Posts: 188 Karma: 1341124 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: Kindle 3	Wow, that was quick. Thanks Kovid!

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