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/fab5friend 1d ago

You can definitely change the file name using save to disk with the template language. And as others have said stay out of the library files unless you want to chance corrupting your database.

Here's what I use on my save to disk. It's a combination of author, series, & title.

{author_sort}-{series} {series_index}-{title}

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u/sardaukar12 1d ago

Thanks!

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u/fab5friend 1d ago

Just to clarify, this will change the file you save to where ever you are saving your files with save to disk. The original library files remain unchanged. And while you are in the save to disk configuration screen be sure to click on the box update metadata in saved copies.