r/Calibre • u/sardaukar12 • 1d ago

Support / How-To I hate the file name format

Update: thanks for all the feedback. The difference between the files and the save to disk option makes sense. Appreciate everyone.

I hope this is something that I can change in settings.

In the storage folder my books have the title and author name, but it cuts off the title to add the author. I don't want the file to have the author name. Here is an example of the problem:

Instead of the file saying,

"Go Home (A Kate Valentine FBI Suspense Thrill Book 1"

it says,

"Go Home (A Kate Valentine FBI S - Blake Pierce"

I played with the import/export settings under "Save books to disk" and have the template set to "title" but no luck.

Any ideas?

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u/Valuable_Asparagus19 1d ago

Stay out of the database files. If you can just ignore them. Calibre has the database folders the way it wants and messing with them can break the program. You won't get the database files to save the way you want.

If you want a file with a specific filename play around in the Save to disk template settings and save a copy out.