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Originally Posted by cybmole
a metadata search / download will overwrite most things - author, title, cover... but it adds to summary text rather than overwrites.
so it's easy to get long summaries with duplicate text. would it not be more logical to overwrite this data
e.g. I download metadata, decide I don't really care for the cover, or the summary, so I delete ISBN, and download again, this time choosing a different match from the screen of matches. ... summary gets added to....
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I've had this debate with Starson17 in the past on a ticket in the bug tracker. I think he may have made a few minor tweaks to it but basically we had problems reliably replicating the "exact doubling up". Though like you I had records which showed the same result of that. In some cases I found the duplicates were not quite exact - it is possible that I had added a missing space to end of a sentence, but then downloading again says "you are not exact" and doubles up...
I'm in your camp - I don't want summaries "appended" to under any circumstance. However the existing behaviour is to append if the comments differ in any way. The justification given that people may want additional reviews. I think when Kovid's new metadata download stuff comes in as a user the intent is to have more control over what gets overwritten etc.
In the meantime I just patched my local source code so it never overwrites if I have an existing value
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I'm not a fan of tags & social data so dunno if they overwrite or accumulate.
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Tags accumulate. Everything else overwrites if it has a value from memory like series, rating etc. Some of this you can turn off if you don't want it at all in the configuration for the metadata download plugins. Personally I again "tweaked" the source code, such that it only puts in values if I don't have them and never appends.