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Originally Posted by Merischino
I believe we are still at the impasse of "what should happen" vs "what is happening" being different on my machine.
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If something is still happening that shouldn't happen, it's either a bug or a hardware problem or an OS permissions issue, etc. It can be found if it can be repeated. Do you have a problem that can be repeated?
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I understand that whatever calibre does with respect to authorsort fields, it does once. And that after I manually enter a change (as i have done for every single record in my database), it should behave a certain way. It isn't. I don't have an explanation for why. And I understand your poitns about how the tweak is basically just a setting for what calibre defaults to that one time that it puts something into the authorsort field (upon adding a file to the database).
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You're basically right, but the tweak does affect what happens when you edit metadata if you have the option checked that tells Calibre to change author_sort when you change author. It's not totally a "one-time only" tweak.
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Adding the tweak now won't have any affect whatsoever on what is or is not currently working in the records which are already in my database.
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Correct.
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What steps should I take in order to achieve a hopefully clean and uncorrupted installation of calibre? The fact that I just upgraded to the latest version probably is immaterial at this point, as the problems I was having before that upgrade I am still having now.
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Can you describe the problems and repeat them, or are they intermittent?