I discovered that when I started learning how to use Sigil, which is why I'm surprised to find an epub, an opf and a jpg image in the folder I made for conversions. I don't think that was supposed to happen, especially since I chose to save only epub to disk.
Yeah that's odd...not seeing your work flow it's hard to say what could have gotten mixed up. I don't use Sigil so I can't say how it works in terms of working files. But generally speaking you should only have the epub where you save your story to. Did you do any tests with saving the converted story somewhere else in a new clean empty folder to see what would happen?
I don't know if I will eventually start using it for management as well. I'm taking it slow this time; first time I imported my entire library and ended up with a mess on my hands.
Same here! :)
I remember reading somewhere in one of the threads that too many subfolders can impair Windows performance so that's also an issue. The developer was surprised by that.
I thought you had to go down about twenty levels before anything would happen. I do know that some programs can't handle more than 40 characters in a file name. But I've never run into any troubles in the three years I've been using calibre. And since Calibre is the only program accessing any of those folders it's all good. :)
Read/unread I could apply to new fics, since the ones already saved have all been read many times before. In the end, I guess it's a question of stepping over that mental hurdle of dealing with folders to dealing with metadata. My level of discomfort tells me I'm not ready yet.
I think for myself I just love that the program does have custom columns. It took me a while to get used to the program too. Hopefully, they'll either come out with a good alternative or the folder structure will stop bugging you.
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Yeah that's odd...not seeing your work flow it's hard to say what could have gotten mixed up. I don't use Sigil so I can't say how it works in terms of working files. But generally speaking you should only have the epub where you save your story to. Did you do any tests with saving the converted story somewhere else in a new clean empty folder to see what would happen?
I don't know if I will eventually start using it for management as well. I'm taking it slow this time; first time I imported my entire library and ended up with a mess on my hands.
Same here! :)
I remember reading somewhere in one of the threads that too many subfolders can impair Windows performance so that's also an issue. The developer was surprised by that.
I thought you had to go down about twenty levels before anything would happen. I do know that some programs can't handle more than 40 characters in a file name. But I've never run into any troubles in the three years I've been using calibre. And since Calibre is the only program accessing any of those folders it's all good. :)
Read/unread I could apply to new fics, since the ones already saved have all been read many times before. In the end, I guess it's a question of stepping over that mental hurdle of dealing with folders to dealing with metadata. My level of discomfort tells me I'm not ready yet.
I think for myself I just love that the program does have custom columns. It took me a while to get used to the program too. Hopefully, they'll either come out with a good alternative or the folder structure will stop bugging you.