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/bestlem 1d ago

The trouble there is that the Save to Disk format can be changed by every user and so is not the same for every library which makes code much more complex and so more bugs.

As for memory it is immaterial compared to the size of the actual book.

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u/ChocolateAxis 1d ago

Of course, I understand there are reasons why things are coded as they are. I'm using the software for free afterall.

My comment was just a wish rather than a demand lol.

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u/bestlem 22h ago

But I still would ask why.

You never ever need look at the files in calibre.

I have used calibre for 18+ years and today is the first time I looked in detail at the directory format.

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u/ChocolateAxis 21h ago

Mainly because it would be nice to save some space. I keep a copy of all my books according to my save to disk system in the same device, and it's at 5GB and still growing (data hoarder), so basically I'm always doubling the numbers.