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Originally Posted by madeinlisboa
It means there is no way of doing this, right?  |
It's quite easy. I wrote AutoMerge to address problems like this - bulk adding/replacing.
Go to the Preferences Adding Books dialog. Turn on AutoMerge, and set the options to overwrite duplicates. Drag all your files into the library. That's it.
Or, at least that's it in theory. In practice, I'd do more to be sure it does what I want. I'd want to be sure that my incoming files match up with author and title for my existing files. The only way to be sure is to have author and title in the filename and use the filename to set the incoming metadata. If you don't get a match, all that happens is you get a duplicate. I'd use the Find Duplicates plugin to locate those. I'd probably also set a special tag for all the new incoming books so I could check any that didn't match. I wrote the Merge option to let you choose which file to keep when merging. If your new formats are better, after Find Duplicates has found duplicates, select the newer one first, then the older one and Merge them to overwrite the older with the newer.