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Old 09-09-2012, 08:10 PM   #316
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please tell me there is a way to say: DELETE ALL DUPLICATE FOUND!

I am currently have 1 library with around 40 procent dublicates...

they are 1 on 1 duplicates from an old library!! how do I remove the copies?

finding is great but I am not deleting them 1 by 1


if there is way to remove the duplicates PLEASE tell me!

thx
Which of the 2 duplicates do you delete?
Are the the same format or different (and a candidate to be merged)?


+IF+ you have the list show all at once (grouped), you can Multi-select (select the first to delete, then hold the Ctrl key and select more) lines, then tap Del
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Old 09-09-2012, 08:16 PM   #317
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all same format etc but now I have the duplicates marked but I cannot sort them to top...

so now group selecting

right now it is book:

A
A
B
B
C
C
D
D

now how do I remove 1 a/b/c/d etc ???

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Old 09-09-2012, 09:06 PM   #318
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all same format etc but now I have the duplicates marked but I cannot sort them to top...

so now group selecting

right now it is book:

A
A
B
B
C
C
D
D

now how do I remove 1 a/b/c/d etc ???
click one of each as I outlined above, then tap the Del key
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Old 09-09-2012, 09:12 PM   #319
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all same format etc but now I have the duplicates marked but I cannot sort them to top...

so now group selecting

right now it is book:

A
A
B
B
C
C
D
D

now how do I remove 1 a/b/c/d etc ???
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Old 09-09-2012, 10:07 PM   #320
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Can this plugin be made such that it does a CRC compare so we know that the duplicates are the exact same version?
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Old 09-09-2012, 10:38 PM   #321
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Can this plugin be made such that it does a CRC compare so we know that the duplicates are the exact same version?
An exact binary compare is already part of this plugin.
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Old 09-10-2012, 03:10 AM   #322
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@BelgarionNL - you said you created the duplicates by moving them from another library. Are these the exact same books, or slight variations (e.g. different formats, different versions of the same epub etc).

If they are binary identical, then you can use the Binary Compare search, and tick the box which automatically removes duplicates. That will remove the book format files, but still leave you with the book rows in calibre. If indeed those rows were created purely from identical copies of the book then one of each of those duplicate pairs will now have no book formats associated with it. So you can do a search for formats:false and then delete those to finish the cleanup operation. The plugin does not automatically do this because there might be metadata on those rows (like a better cover) that you may want to keep by manually merging them.

However if the books you merged in are not binary identical, then it is entirely up to you to go through one by one and decide which version of a format you want to keep. There is no tool on the planet that can make that decision for you - only a human eyeballing them can decide which one is of better quality since it is so subjective.
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Old 09-10-2012, 07:35 AM   #323
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yes they were 100 procent duplicates! So I did what you said! thx!

still I would prefer to have auto delete then to go through 3000 books...
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Old 09-10-2012, 08:12 AM   #324
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@BelgarionNL - I don't see this plugin won't be changing to cater for such an extremely rare (and silly) thing to do .

I explained above the reasons why the plugin does not auto-delete book records. It would have to compare every single field and custom column of the book record, and compare image contents to be 100% sure that two records are identical, it is such a minor edge case I cannot be bothered trying to write the code for it. Any thing less than that strict, and deleting becomes an arbitrary decision which may result in someone losing their perfect retail ePub copy and being left with some corrupted calibre conversion or whatever. It is not a responsibility I have any intention of taking any possibility of blame for.

As I mentioned several times on the original development thread for this plugin I always envisaged there would perhaps be one day a more intelligent "Smart Merge" plugin that would partner this one. So having identified the duplicates, you can use Smart Merge to help figure out how to resolve them and do auto-merging where safe etc. But no-one has written it yet, and it isn't on my todo list in the forseeable future either. By being more intelligent with your workflow of adding books to your library you can minimise the likelihood of duplicates occurring in the first place, and then just periodically scan with this plugin to catch any failures in that process.
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Old 09-14-2012, 01:20 AM   #325
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@BelgarionNL - I think your issue now is that while Find Duplicates can automatically remove binary duplicate formats, you're left with all the book entries with no book formats (ie. book files) attached. You'd like to delete all those empty book entries because they're duplicates of their matching book entry. If that is your problem, I have a solution.

Add a custom field "format". It's a standard custom field so real easy to add.
Choose to display that new field in your book list.
Now you can see which books have book formats and which don't (because FindDuplicates nicely removed them for you).
Sort by format.
Now you can select and delete all the book entries with no formats real simply.
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Old 09-14-2012, 01:28 AM   #326
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@chis,

Thanks for the kind words and glad the plugins have been useful to you.

The problem with the selection idea is that there is already a purpose for clicking on the right-side - it controls the ability to select/deselect items. As it is possible that you don't want to rename all of the variations that it found.

The way I saw people could handle the "this is not the name you were looking for" issue is that if you scroll down the list on the left hand side and find that variation there. All the permutations are available in that list.

I can't think of an alternative way just at the moment, though if someone has a suggestion I will consider it.

Enjoy the plugins.
How about right-clicking on the right-side list. That doesn't seem to do anything on that list at the moment (Win7x64)

Having this feature is very useful when you have a lot of variable authors and will work through them on several occasions. I can just work through the authors from top each time, not having to remember that I've already thought about some of them and put them aside to fix further down the list.
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Dear Sirs,
I have noticed that many e-books files of mine only differ for a very few bytes. Is it possibile to use the plugin so that it finds file binary search in a adjustable fuzzy way?
Thanks for the attention.
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Old 10-16-2012, 10:56 PM   #328
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I have noticed that many e-books files of mine only differ for a very few bytes. Is it possibile to use the plugin so that it finds file binary search in a adjustable fuzzy way?
Assuming you're dealing with epub or similarly compressed files, those few bytes in file size can mean quite a big difference in the actual binary content. For any meaningful comparison to be made, you'd need to decompress/unpack the ebooks which I reckon, would take too much time unless you've got a tiny library.

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thank you for your answer, ilovejedd, but maybe I did not let myself understood. When I wrote "only differ for a very few bytes" I did not mean differences in length, but typical, minimal differences in actual bytes.
However, I ignore the way by which that comparison is performed in the plug in.
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Anyway, changing the duplicate binary comparison algorithm, so that it can also provide some bits of fuzzy logic would be a cool thing.
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