Saving books in same folder structure as it was taken

[thosedays]

Hi.

As in thread name, is it possible to take by the calibre the folders structure/place information of where/how every book that were added were before and therefore late save all those books in the same way?

I did some basic search about this, but maybe because of my English, I didn't had much ideas of how to search more correctly for that, so my apology if there were earlier such topics, and answers.

Thank You.

[itimpi]

I think that what you are asking for could be achieved by using this plugin to capture the filename and path when adding books?

[BetterRed]

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Originally Posted by thosedays

As in thread name, is it possible to take by the calibre the folders structure/place information of where/how every book that were added were before and therefore late save all those books in the same way?

@thosedays - the GetFileName plugin will allow you to store the original path when a Book is added - e.g. "D:\My Books\Biographies\Recollections of a Bleeding Heart - Don Watson.pdf"

Right now I can't think of a direct way you could use that with Save to Disk. A Save to Disk template is intended to be used to construct a path based on a book's metadata - i.e. the title, author, publisher, #read_date, etc columns.

I don't know if it would work with a custom column containing a regular file path like you see you above, containing colons, sloshes and dots. It might work if you converted it to an internet path, perhaps via a composite (derived) column template - e.g to

file:///D:/My%20Books/Biographies/Australia/Recollections%20of%20a%20Bleeding%20Heart%20-%20Don%20Watson.pdf

But the GetFileName plugin will give you something you can work with .

BR

[BetterRed]

@thosedays - if you're only using the library to do conversions, you might want to consider using the Command Line Tools, they give you direct control over file paths, see ebook-convert.

BR