Thread: Saving to disk with "Unknown" in author field
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Old 11-07-2011, 10:55 AM   #8
chaley
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Originally Posted by Starson17 View Post
I wonder if this has changed? My db has author_sort set to Unknown for all my Unknowns? I did a quick test by adding an empty book, and author_sort was set to Unknown for it. Under what circumstances is author_sort left empty? Is it during import, with an empty author, or only by clearing the author_sort field?
I also haven't been able to make it happen. I have tried empty books, books with empty file-as in the OPF, etc.

My suspicion is that the OP has books from way-back-when when we might have handled null values incorrectly. Alternatively, author_sort was explicitly set to empty at some point. Pure speculation on my part.
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