Export ONLY ePub file?

[romad]

I tried using the "Save only ePub format to disk" menu item but it saved 5 items instead of just the ePub: the ePub file, the cover graphic file, and the opd file were saved in a folder with the book title which in turn was saved in ANOTHER folder with the author's name.

How can I export JUST the file "title.epub"?

[BetterRed]

@romad - I do it this way, configure the STD preferences thus:



And then use vanilla save to disk (press the 'S' key)

BR

[kovidgoyal]

Right click on EPUB in the book detail panel and choose save to disk

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by romad

I tried using the "Save only ePub format to disk" menu item but it saved 5 items instead of just the ePub: the ePub file, the cover graphic file, and the opd file were saved in a folder with the book title which in turn was saved in ANOTHER folder with the author's name.

How can I export JUST the file "title.epub"?

As BetterRed said, this happens because you have not disabled the default option of saving the OPF and cover, nor have you changed the default save-to-disk filename template that includes an author and title folder.

[romad]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@romad - I do it this way, configure the STD preferences thus:

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And then use vanilla save to disk (press the 'S' key)

BR

OK, thanks. I was under the impression that the Save to disk>Save only EPUB to disk item temporarily overwrote the defaults.

I'll copy your settings and see what happens.

[romad]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

As BetterRed said, this happens because you have not disabled the default option of saving the OPF and cover, nor have you changed the default save-to-disk filename template that includes an author and title folder.

I was under the impression that the "Save only EPUB format to disk" temporarily overwrote any other settings including the defaults.

[romad]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Right click on EPUB in the book detail panel and choose save to disk

That is what I did. The way the "Save only EPUB format to disk" is titled led me to believe ONLY the "title.epub" file would be saved and any other settings would be ignored. Unfortunately it didn't happen for me but as I said above it ALSO saved 2 other files and 2 folders. I'm going to experiment with the Save to disk preferences.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by romad

That is what I did. The way the "Save only EPUB format to disk" is titled led me to believe ONLY the "title.epub" file would be saved and any other settings would be ignored. Unfortunately it didn't happen for me but as I said above it ALSO saved 2 other files and 2 folders. I'm going to experiment with the Save to disk preferences.

No, that's not what you did. Right click the EPUB entry in the Book Details panel not the Save to Disk menu.

[romad]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

No, that's not what you did. Right click the EPUB entry in the Book Details panel not the Save to Disk menu.

Ah, I see. I had selected all the items in the Library panel. I wanted to do all 600 books in one action, rather than 600 single actions using the Book Details.

[kovidgoyal]

If you want to do bulk action, use save to disk, after setting the appropriate preferences in Preferences->Saving to disk

[Divingduck]

An other way to do this is via command line (in case you are transferring huge amounts of books more often) like:

calibredb export --all --dont-save-cover --dont-update-metadata --dont-write-opf --format epub --replace-whitespace --single-dir --template {author}-{title} --to-dir "\\ANTEC\document_server\ePub Books"

https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/gen...db.html#export