Strange behaviors on save templates

[stefer]

I'm trying to get calibre to save books into a subfolder on a kobo device for better organization. Since the default is saving everything into the root folder, I have modified the save template to "/documents/{author_sort}/{title} - {authors}". However, this seems to have some very weird side effects, where some books will be saved to the "documents" folder, but others seems to be going to a folder called "docuents" instead.

Edit: "/documents/{title} - {authors}" seems to work fine even with previously problematic books.


My apologies if this is a dumb question and I'm missing something obvious, but does anyone know why my save template is causing this strange behavior, and how I can fix this?

[BetterRed]

Looks like something is shortening the path

Do you have long file names e.g titles with long straplines e.g.

Building a Shed: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah - Joe Blow

Or two storeys of authors - as might be found in an anthology, or a medical journal paper.

BR

[DNSB]

What I have been using for my save to device template is:

Elib/{author_sort:sublist(0,1,&)}/{title} - {authors:sublist(0,1,&)}

Basically in the root there is a directory called Elib, inside it are directories that are created from the first author sort (lastname, firstname) followed by the title with the first author name (firstname lastname) appended.

So Elib/Simonson, Mark/The Dark Heart of Time - Mark Simonson

Due to anthologies, I found that I was getting filename truncation so this helped. Since I use Kobo ereaders, I also moved any text after the book title that I wanted to keep into a subtitle field which is send to my Kobos as part of the metadata.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Looks like something is shortening the path

Do you have long file names e.g titles with long straplines e.g.

Building a Shed: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah - Joe Blow

Or two storeys of authors - as might be found in an anthology, or a medical journal paper.

BR

At least for KoboTouch (and Extended), the maximum path length is 185 characters. I once had it lop off the beginning of the path during truncation.

A similar case some months later with a long title is also why I created a #subtitle column for the straplines.