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Nnoo-oo, that's not good. I have very few books with good metadata, most are in the process of aquisition. It involves lot of decisions, careful reading and editing - nothing so easy as bulk download. In this stage I definitely do not want metadata in the book.
Must I really start from scratch?
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Sounds like you have still a lot of work to do in the metadata editing part anyway.
It might be a very good time to merge in one way or another.
If you know which books you have manually checked, you can (if you haven't already) create custom columns and mark those as checked.
I had 8000 ebooks to sort and format etc. and it took me a couple of months but with the custom columns I was not constantly rechecking.
I have one y/n column for whether it was checked. Y=good format N=format problem indeterminate =not checked.
Another short text column indicates what the formatting is. When you have made an entry then it will give you a dropdown list so you can make your comments consistent.
That way you can sort your books based on formatting problems and fix a bunch at once if you so desire.
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1. Can I use Calibre to get rid of the author that I see only in folder view? (I'm afraid creating even more mess by just deleting it).
But if C won't see it anyway, maybe it's ok to navigate to library and delete offending folders in win explorer...?
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Pretty sure if you move your library it will leave those folders behind.
Also there is a faster database check which I cannot seem to locate in 7.023 which points out a lot of inconsistencies