Jumbled up export folder names?

[khigh]

Hi all - first time user.

I hope this hasn't been covered before. I did some searches, but I may not know the right thing to call it except per the title.

I know I can't change the Library structure, but that doesn't work for me as an end product, so I need to do an export pretty much grouped by subject, so I'm using tags.

I did a test on a small library and added some primary and secondary tags as a test. Literally test tags "Primary Tag 1" through "Primary Tag 4" and then two secondary tags.

In preferences, I set my export structure as {tags}/{title}/{title}

But when I export, it jumbles up the tag names.



It looks like it's just randomly screwing it up, but when I start all over again including reatarting Calibre, it makes the same exact list like there's a reason it's doing it that way.

Any ideas what's happening or what I'm doing wrong?

Or am I even trying to make a genre/subject sorted export library incorrectly?

Thanks for looking.

[eschwartz]

If the title is very long, calibre will truncate the total filepath in order to prevent Windows Filename Too Long errors.
How long are the titles, and how long is the filename path to the containing folder?

[khigh]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

If the title is very long, calibre will truncate the total filepath in order to prevent Windows Filename Too Long errors.
How long are the titles, and how long is the filename path to the containing folder?

That's it! I don't really need the intermediate folder step for what I'm doing, if I uncheck covers and data (The people I'm distributing to can add them into Calibre if they like).

Thanks so much!

Now more experimenting with tags - looks like they're used alphabetically for export folders, so I need to preference all my tag names with A, B, C, etc. or 1, 2, 3, maybe. then if it looks funny, I can do a windows global renamer to strip off the folder name prefixes.

Or is there a better way?

[eschwartz]

Tags are sorted internally within calibre in alphabetical order, if you want them to be in a specific order you need to use a text column I believe -- which comes with its own problems.

[khigh]

Thanks! I just tried it the way I was talking about - really not even using multiple numbers, though. I just put an "A" in front of of the Top level tag names, so I'll get "Gardening, Berries then "Gardening, Herbs" instead of "Berries, Gardening then Gardening, Herbs" after I use a simple little Windows utility to knock the prefixes off in post.

Thanks again!

[eschwartz]

You can use an advanced template to process column data with regex. See: http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/template_lang.html

In this case, a list_re()

list_re(src_list, separator, include_re, opt_replace) – Construct a list by first separating src_list into items using the separator character. For each item in the list, check if it matches include_re. If it does, then add it to the list to be returned. If opt_replace is not the empty string, then apply the replacement before adding the item to the returned list.

This should work:

{tags:'list_re($,",","^[A-Z](.*)","\1")'}

to strip off the first capital letter of each tag.