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Originally Posted by kiwidude
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.
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what is stripped in the title? I thought that had to do with what import script u use. like the one in my signature strips everything with brackets around it in the title but the one i'm using now doesn't. it just removes brackets from around the series leaving others alone.
I was under the impression that auto merge. grouped together the same name but different file types and if it was the same name and file type that it kept the first one it comes to and discards the next ones. The definition of same file type was if the author, series and title and extension matched. yes? and your saying series isn't considered... i thought it was.
As far as what i was trying to achieve with version. I was going to use the find duplicate with fuzy logic on both settings then pick and choose which versions to keep. That being highest version with consideration as to if it was a v5 pdf (they convert poorly) better to keep it in its orginal fomat.
everything is getting converted to mobi but i'm keeping copies of .epub's, & v5 .pdf's everything else i'm gets deleted..(of course i keep a copy of the orginal backup pre-deletions).