From ba77c55764c9ec9177ecc404c0879bb9f9f31192 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kovid Goyal Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:35:27 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] ... --- src/calibre/manual/faq.rst | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/calibre/manual/faq.rst b/src/calibre/manual/faq.rst index 03482620b6..5ae57d093b 100644 --- a/src/calibre/manual/faq.rst +++ b/src/calibre/manual/faq.rst @@ -405,7 +405,9 @@ To those of you that claim that you need access to the filesystem to so that you If you are worried that someday |app| will cease to be developed, leaving all your books marooned in its folder structure, explore the powerful "Save to Disk" feature in |app| that lets you export all your files into a folder structure of arbitrary complexity based on their metadata. -Finally, since I keep getting asked why there are numbers at the end of the title folder name, the reason is for *robustness*. That number is the id number of the book record in the |app| database. The presence of the number allows you to have multiple records with the same title and author names. More importantly, it is part of what allows |app| to magically regenerate the database with all metadata if the database file gets corrupted. Given that |app|'s mission is to get you to stop storing metadata in filenames and stop using the filesystem to find things, the increased robustness afforded by the id numbers is well worth the uglier folder names. +Since I keep getting asked why there are numbers at the end of the title folder name, the reason is for *robustness*. That number is the id number of the book record in the |app| database. The presence of the number allows you to have multiple records with the same title and author names. More importantly, it is part of what allows |app| to magically regenerate the database with all metadata if the database file gets corrupted. Given that |app|'s mission is to get you to stop storing metadata in filenames and stop using the filesystem to find things, the increased robustness afforded by the id numbers is well worth the uglier folder names. + +Finally, if you are irrevocably wedded to the filesystem, feel free to patch your local copy of |app| to use whatever storage scheme you like. But, do not bother me with requests to change the directory structure, **they will be ignored**. Why doesn't |app| have a column for foo? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~