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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
original_file if it exists.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
delete the original_file
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I found this out the other day. When I noticed that I lost the changes I made when tweaking an epub, and then reconverting it afterwards to get it normalized. And Calibre normalized the tweaks so completely they were gone when it was done converting
Luckily it was a simply tweak - for other tweaks I've also spent well over an hour tweaking a horribly formatted book [which had pages missing which I typed in from the paper version].
Wouldn't it be better for the user to be able to select ORIGINAL_EPUB as source format in the dropdown list that's already there, instead of using it implicitely / giving the user no choice?
Deleting the ORIGINAL_EPUB may not always be the right choice either. Doing this would create a new ORIGINAL_EPUB which isn't the original at all, just the previous one...
Maybe we could have ORIGINAL_EPUB (which never gets overwritten, so it's only created before the first conversion in calibre), a PREVIOUS_EPUB (basically an undo feature for a botched convert), and regular EPUB, and be able to select either one when converting.
Just throwing ideas around - don't mind me.
