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Old 11-21-2015, 10:30 AM   #1
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I have over 500 files in the book. When I was writing, use numbered them from 1 to 500 (plus the specific name), so as not to get lost. Now the number is no longer needed. I know that they can in sequence to change, but I thought that if Calibre supports regular expressions can would be do this automatically (as in the program "ReNamer"). Nothing like that I have found. Too bad.
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Old 11-21-2015, 10:45 AM   #2
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Are you talking about source files within a book? If so, this would appear to be a question about the Calibre Editor.
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Old 11-21-2015, 11:49 AM   #3
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If these are source files that have not yet been compiled into a book (e.g. Word DOC files, RTF files, HTML files, ...) then you might look at using Bulk Rename Utility.
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What is wrong with numbers
(as long as you did them so they ASCII (alpha)sort in case your OPF gets damaged.) They work just fine with the reader device.

I find named files can be handy for copy-edits, but if you have used the a scheme that allows auto generated TOC, even that is not needed. Just click the TOC (NCX) item to get to the file where the edit is needed

I never understood why some publishers encode all the component the file names with all the metadata (ISBN_title_Author_sectiontype-sequence). (do the BPH hand out pieces to different copy editors?)

EPUB is a package, you usually work inside the box
Except for developing a cover or publishers boilerplate stuff that may come from external sources and need to be married up with the proper package, this seemed unnecessarily long winded
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Well, just so we're clear -- we are talking about the editor, right?


Well, if you select multiple files in the File Browser, you can bulk rename them with a user-chosen prefix, and suffixed with a number.
Which seems a fair definition of "bulk rename" -- how else do you bulk rename them, without some sort of basename and incrementing counter?
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