[cybmole]

should probably move this testing to a new thread, but anyway.

I'll start over with a small mobi book. - 1. I make a. rtf version,m with calibre & open it in word.
2. using word, I save it as htm outside of calibre folders.
3. I add that file to calibre as a new book
4. I do merge - this time it all works!

I try again with another book that exists already in 3 formats. no issue there either.

so now I go to the book which has been causing all of the trouble - Bob Woodward, the war within... I copy the zip to desktop then remove it from calibre via remove book of a specific format. then I add the zip back into calibre as a new book, & then I merge - then I move mouse to the original copy to view formats list - voila, the available format list has NOT updated! so I can reproduce the bug on this specific PC with this specific book.

not sure how to get the files to you if you want them all - it's an 8MB pdf, 1 MB RTF, smaller mobi & zip.

but the zip is not lost i.e. if I open path, then it is there. & if I click onto a different book in main calibre window, then back onto this book, the list has updated. so it is just a small display update issue , not a lost file issue? maybe the metadata for the 2 books has to mismatch, as it does in test 3 before merge ( as making the zip remakes metadata and changes the title slightly ) ?