![]() ![]() Let’s say you have two folders, “Doe, John and John Doe.” Five books are in “Doe, John” and three books are in “John Doe.” Select all, edit metadata in bulk, type “Doe, John” in the author field and apply. I find by selecting all books for an Author, “Editing Metadata in Bulk” and then changing the Author name to the format I want, Calibre will always transfer all books to the correct folder. As mentioned previously, by changing the Author name and then exiting Calibre, the files are moved to the proper folder. I find usually, not all the time, that the Author name is different (usually reversed) when Calibre creates a second folder for the same author. I have been playing around with this issue relative to Calibre fixing it automatically. I tested this with an empty folder and it found it and allowed me to delete it. It allows you to check the folder structure and files against what is in the database. last_modified gets set to now()Īgain, run library maintenance and see what it reports. Selecting all books, then Copy to Library (a new, empty library) Delete after copy If a folder is left behind, then something (Explorer?) still had a hook on it. I haven’t found a way to have Calibre clean up empty folders.īottomline, you are right HarryT, don’t mess with the database unless you know what you are doing and have the software to do so. I would have seen the one I wanted to go away was empty and the changes did work. I should have checked the contents of the folder. Seeing the folders still there I assumed the changes didn’t work. I would make a change and then check to see if the folder issues were resolved. I had tried the solutions mentioned above, but they didn’t seem to work. When I update my ereader, I use a MS Surface 3, I use Calibre to write the ebooks to a network disk and then update the Calibre library on the MS Surface 3 with those epub books exported by Calibre. An example would be “Pendleton, Don” versus “Don Pendleton”. The problem occurs when the ebook sources for a given author are different and the author name is reversed from the other ebooks by the same author.Ĭalibre then uses that to create a separate folder. The books are then added to the Calibre library, using Calibre, from the other folders. ![]() The Caliber library is in its own folder. The Amazon purchases are in “My Kindle Books” and all others go in “My ebooks” folders. Being a computer science major, I am aware of the database concept that Calibre uses and let Calibre completely manage its folders.
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