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COLEY54321 · 04-15-2012, 03:21 PM

Hi. Yes it worked!

ALL EPUB formats worked perfectly (and so I don’t understand why data isn’t written to file instantaneously for this format).

PDF – I agree seems dodgy. Metadata didn't get written to some files (e.g. title, author, and tags didn't get updated in file metadata). But that was only for 5 books out of 620 I did.

The ones that didn't work I did a binary duplicate search on > Deleted the duplicates > opened containing folder of the original > opened with Adobe Acrobat (or you could use any other PDF writer such as Coral PDF Fusion) adjusted one of the property fields and saved the file > Went back into calibre and repeated the process of saving to disk and dragging back in for that file, and it worked.

It's almost as if some PDFs are locked up and need freeing up by forcing update of the fields within the file.

But all in all, job well done.

04-15-2012, 03:21 PM	#7
COLEY54321 Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2012 Device: iPad 3	Hi. Yes it worked! ALL EPUB formats worked perfectly (and so I don’t understand why data isn’t written to file instantaneously for this format). PDF – I agree seems dodgy. Metadata didn't get written to some files (e.g. title, author, and tags didn't get updated in file metadata). But that was only for 5 books out of 620 I did. The ones that didn't work I did a binary duplicate search on > Deleted the duplicates > opened containing folder of the original > opened with Adobe Acrobat (or you could use any other PDF writer such as Coral PDF Fusion) adjusted one of the property fields and saved the file > Went back into calibre and repeated the process of saving to disk and dragging back in for that file, and it worked. It's almost as if some PDFs are locked up and need freeing up by forcing update of the fields within the file. But all in all, job well done.