ibooks ver1.5 pdf file name changed

I have the same problem. This is ridiculous. I updated on my iphone and they are all messed up like you stated. I still have the old ibooks on my iPad and they are fine. Hope they fix soon.

Same problem. This is terrible! I have been using iBooks for its fast render, but now all my pdf files are messed up. When you open the file it seems to be taking the original author's tag filename instead of the filename you put on iTunes. It's tremendously difficult now for me to find my commonly used pdf files since their iTunes names are gone.

No updates yet on this iBooks version. Please Apple, this is an ASAP-fix!

ps. This iBooks also seems to be rendering the pdf files much slower, anyone noticed this too?

Same problem!!!

And also all of my Categpries that I made was disappeared!!!

It's a big mess for me because I have more than 700 books.

Without categorization function and some file names are incorrect will be a big disaster!

This is very very bad!!!

iPad2 iOS 5.01

Same problem here

I use iBooks for work, and now I have half a dozen different documents with the same name and several dozen others with unintelligible names. When I delete and re-sync with iTunes, it initially corrects it, but when I open the document again on the iPad, it changes it again.

Since I rely on knowing exactly which documents are what to be able to switch between them quickly, this is an incredibly annoying problem, and it makes it extremely difficult to use.

Need a fix ASAP.

Yep, a true mess. Got 1200 pdf books (CD-Booklets) in iBooks and names are all badly f&%$§ed up....

Do these guys at Apple know what their doing? I observe a severe increase in bugs in recent times. (Since Lion and iOS5)

Hope this is fixed soon.

And me

I missed this discussion and started a new one:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3564131?tstart=0

that can now be ignored.

There does not seem to be a place for Apple feedback on iBooks

Me too...I just filed a bug on the apple ipad support page. I guess after they see hundreds of filings of the same bug we'll have their attention :-) Obviously the latest IOS 5 iBooks update was not thoroughly

tested...

I've also noticed that not only are the names of my titles changing back to the metadata names in the original PDF when I open the PDF in iBooks but that changes I make in iTunes to the category of a PDF never sync

to my iPad 2

Like others I have hundreds of PDF titles on my iPad2 ...when the document titles/names/categories become unintelligible or won't update I can'tmanage my library and it makes iBooks almost useless. I tried but

don't seem to be able to correct the problem by updating the PDF book "Info" in iTunes and forcing a re-sync.

-Rocky

I just got an Ipad 2 so I'm probably on the latest OS. My experience has been all I need to do is go to ITUNES and click File, Add File to Library, to add my pdf files. Then when I sync to my Ipad it uses the file name for the title instead of the metatdata title that is embedded in the pdf. Somewhere in the posts I saw a person who was having trouble with iBooks changing the book title back to the metadata title. This has not happened to me. Maybe an OS version issue.

To permanently (and easily) change the metadata title in a pdf, I found this cool freeware app - BcCyPDFMetaEdit.

I use Windows 7 on my desktop. Probably there is a pdf metadata editor for Mac also.

I have the latest OS version on my iPad 2, as well as the latest version of iTunes.

I have tried deleting the PDF file on the iPad, and re-syncing to iTunes which shows the proper file name. Initially it will look like it's changed back to the file name as opposed to the metadata, but as soon as I click on the file, it changes back to the metadata name.

I started to look for a free PDF metadata editor for Mac, but the easiest solution for me was going back to an earlier version of iBooks.

Oddly enough, I have colleagues with the exact same OS and iTunes version, opening the exact same files on their iPad 2s using iBooks 1.5, and they do not have this issue.

Frustrating!

I hope they do something about this quickly... I'm a construction manager and i have thousands of large size PDFs that I use ibooks to reference for just a couple of projects. The files aren't even searchable anymore since you're used to searching them by their actual file names... truly awful, has directly affected settling any disputes by just pulling up the drawings or specs, has become unusable. have you guys tried the fastPDF app? haven't myself, just curious what will do to all the files already on the ipad.

please fix this asap!!

I'm having the same problem with this latest version of iBooks! Open a PDF and it changes its name!

YOU WOULD THINK that when you change the name of a PDF file in iTunes, it makes this change in the PDFs metadata!!!.... Either way or in any case, iBooks should be displaying the name I assign to the file in itunes, not whatever may be buried in some meta data! PLEASE FIX!!!

I should not have to use a meta data editing tool, or to remove files and reimport them to have something as simple a name you assign to a documented to stay as you change it in iTunes.

You have to install the hold iBooks probably in your basket. iTunes put the hold app's in the basket when he update an app's. Only drag and drop it in iTunes'apps

Me too! I'm doing research for a book I am writing and I have a lot of research in PDF on my iPad. Now all my research have the same file name! Come on and fix this please! I can't search dozens of PDF every time I need one! If I wanted crappy PDF service I would have stayed with the Barnes and Noble Nook color!

What are you all doing using IBooks? Goodreader is a much superior app and you do not have the problem of file names changing. (Incidentally, when I used IBooks I discovered that it was only file names of PDF's created from MS Word documents that were changing.) Goodreader costs very little and has a superior file management system, including the ability to change the file name to anything you want. Search for it in the Apps Store and have a read and purchase it!

If you have a lot of files in IBooks transfer them to Goodreader in Tunes.

Interesting...a colleague just showed me GoodReader earlier today and I just got finished

moving all my files over to it when I saw your post. Wow what a superior file management system (meaning GoodReader actually has one and it works great, whereas iBooks is just a barebones iTunes slave). Plus GoodReader connects to Google Docs and other cloud bases servoces too for upload and download.

$5 well spent on GoodReader......Goodbye iBooks, even recent bugs aside, I've come to the conclusion you're just too "Apple" for me...I could have lived with the level of simplicity and abstraction iBooks offeres but, when this new version comes out that's so obviously untested for PDF users, it makes me think that the fact that iBooks is free means testing and support are always going to be second rate. For $5 and some really cool tech friendly features (not everyone wants to be oblivious to whats going on under the covers) GoodReader has won me over...