Another calibre question

[valiha]

HI, I have a calibre conversion question fandom people might understand better than MobileRead forumers.

I had the fanfiction downloader program called Graffer installed on my comp. I was happy with it because it would download fics from multiple sources and produced clean html files. Unfortunately it's creator gave up on the program and it is no longer updated, and it has stopped working for several major archives.

My work on converting my fics via calibre is slow, ad I often want to chuck my comp out the window, that's how frustrated calibre makes me feel. I was expecting import and conversion to be fairly straightforward, but calibre kept messing up the authors. I finally loked at the html coding and discovered that Graffer added a line in the metadata section which calibre would read as author name, but was actually the name of the programmer: <meta name='author' content='Grzegorz Hordynski' />

I wet to MobileRead to see if I can find a way to change this line in the html file automatically through bulk convert, but couldn't figure out the instructions or the regexes. I've been having a back and forth conversation with a member who doesn't understand what I'm after, so does anyone here know how to set up calibre so that it changes the programmer's name into the correct author name for selected ebooks in the actual html file, not just in the metadata?

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[valiha]

I hate this program so much. My latest post on the MB thread, after trying out their advice to change the data and connecting my device to see how my app would read the converted epub:

OH MY GOD, it just deleted everything on my SD card!!!

I had three fandoms saved there in my fiction folder, and notes from my postgraduate lectures, word documents and powerpoint presentations - you've got to be kidding me!!

I clicked Save to disk, Save only epub format to disk, it recognized Pocketbook's internal card, but when I clicked on Removable disk (G it asked if I wanted to format the card. Of course I don't, I have important documents there. So I click Cancel, and I get

G:\ is not accessible.
Data error (cyclic redindancy check).

What the hell is that??? :headdesk: All those files gone. I will have to re-download them from our university's server. I really did not need this.

And it's not just those files; I had all my apps backed up to that card. I had information for my contacts stored there. I had appointments saved in my diary app. How the hell am I going to rebuild those?

So what the hell is it about this program that's got everyone singing praises to it? Honestly, I have had nothing but trouble with it from the first time I tried this, but this is really the lowest point so far.

[(Anonymous)]

Everybody sings its praises because it handles many formats and devices, is frequently updated to support newer conventions and formats and is free. I'm sorry you're having trouble with it, but a) your frustrations are clearly not universal, and b) I personally find it much easier to want to help people who are not prone to fits of panic and entitlement.

[valiha]

I would appreciate it if you signed your post if you don't have a Dreamwidth account/OpenID, or logged in if you do.

I think you would panic too if you thought that your 4GB card which contains favorite stories, postgraduate notes, music and video files was deleted and didn't know the reason.

And please do explain to me how complaining about a feature that doesn't work for you even though it works for others is entitlement? Even if a program is free, there's no law saying you cannot complain about it because you haven't paid for it. If nobody complained about a problem they had, there would be no improvement.

I am fully prepared to be told I missed something blindingly obvious, and be called an idiot and a fool. It might be that there's something wrong with my installation. If that does happen, I will post an apology here and on MobileRead. But please, tell me your name so that I can apologize to you personally as well.