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Originally Posted by penguinaka
I was hoping not to have to do that. Basically what i was wishing for was to keep the merge on so that it would merge duplicates unless it had a different version number without it having to be in the title so It wouldn't screw up a metadata retrieval.
I guess i'll have to do it in a few steps like the suggestion earlier in the post. I appreciate all the feedback from everyone thank you.
If the series is different then a duplicate is not merged correct? or for example 1 has series info the other doesn't?
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Be very, very careful about using automerge. Certain things in the title are ignored/stripped, so you might find that even putting extra stuff in the title in an attempt to differentiate them does not achieve what you want.
To illustrate that point, series is certainly not considered, only the title and author.
Remember that whether it is automerge, calibre's duplicate detection or the Find Duplicates plugin, a duplicate is determined by a portion of its title. The granularity of that comparison can only be controlled by the Find Duplicates plugin.
What are you trying to achieve? Just keep the highest version? Keep all versions with the version in a column?
I think you are in for a world of pain whichever route you take. I don't think that automerge being on should be something you should consider unless you are very specific about what you are adding though.