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revjoe · 07-22-2011, 04:18 PM

I have a number of books I am cleaning up, and I noticed an unexpected behavior. I have two entries for the same title/author, both with PDFs. The actual PDFs though are different, for example, one is a scan of the book ala CBR, the other is an ocr scanned version. I was merging them thinking I would get two PDFs in the file system, and was surprised to see only one.

Is this the expected behavior?

If it is, I would recommend an option to archive one copy, leaving it in the folder as another filename instead. Allowing the users to delete data without telling them is not normally a best practice.

In either case, I just wanted to validate that this is the expected behavior.

Thanks

07-22-2011, 04:18 PM	#1
revjoe Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	Merging books with the same format deletes one copy? I have a number of books I am cleaning up, and I noticed an unexpected behavior. I have two entries for the same title/author, both with PDFs. The actual PDFs though are different, for example, one is a scan of the book ala CBR, the other is an ocr scanned version. I was merging them thinking I would get two PDFs in the file system, and was surprised to see only one. Is this the expected behavior? If it is, I would recommend an option to archive one copy, leaving it in the folder as another filename instead. Allowing the users to delete data without telling them is not normally a best practice. In either case, I just wanted to validate that this is the expected behavior. Thanks