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Originally Posted by jesscat
BTW, am I right that at some point Calibre's folder naming protocol changed? On both my kindle and my computer hd(s), I have multiple folders for the same author, newer ones named using "ln, fn" and older ones named using "fn ln"... I try to keep up with these things but sometimes lose track.
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I am sort-of on topic here.
I have run into a relative of this problem several times.
Changing author or title metadata, or changing the folder path in device customization, can cause a book to be put in a different 'place' next time it is sent to the device. However, the original book is not deleted, so I now have two copies of the book on my reader. The result can be confusion over which copy I am actually reading. The work I am doing with using custom field metadata in folder paths exacerbates the problem, because there are more opportunities for metadata to change.
To help deal with this issue, I changed calibre's 'On Device' indicator to show the number of books it found on the device that match a given book in the library. One now can easily see the confusing cases (e.g., search for 'ondevice:book'), and can use the 'remove matching books from device' to get rid of any extra copies. During testing, I found a case where I had 4 copies of one book on my reader.
This change will appear be in 0.7.18