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Originally Posted by theducks
Unless you recently broke it, you can drag an updated version into the Formats section of the metadata editor. No other confirmations done. It simply updated that format with the one dropped.
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Yes, you can do this with the edit metadata screen open. What I was referring to was doing it with that screen closed. If you drag a book to the GUI (edit metadata screen closed) and have the "find and automatically merge" option on, Calibre will find the matching book entry (if there is one) and add the new book to that entry - the same as if you had the edit metadata screen open and dragged the book into the upper right corner.
The difference is that you can drag a hundred books to the GUI, and it will identify them all and put them where they belong. However, it won't replace an existing format when done that way. When I wrote it, it would. It originally acted exactly as it does when the edit metadata screen is open - new formats were added and existing formats were overwritten. Now it only adds new formats, it won't replace existing ones.