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@Jim Thanks! I’m trying to get the Story ID (and Favs and Follows) to appear on the autogenerated cover (the default FFDL one, not the default one from Calibre), and the standard calibre IDs column doesn’t. When it appeared as a character it did. Though it wasn’t ideal it was easy to tell what it was. I was hoping that if I had it as a custom column it might, though having tried it, it apparently doesn’t work that way. Now I’m trying to find the setting for the defaults for what metadata goes into the cover.

Other changed behaviour issues: I’m a beta reader, so sometimes I want to have different historical versions of a story in my library for comparison. I used to do this at occasional break points (for AO3 and FF.net anyway) by downloading a new copy, and appending “, version number” or something, to the title of the old one. Subsequent updates via URL would update the one with the original title. Now this doesn’t work. When I try using ‘If Story Already Exists? Update EPUB if New Chapters’ the log says “More than one identical book--can’t tell which to update/overwrite” despite the fact that they don’t have the same title. Is there somewhere else that I can need to add a difference in order for it to be able to tell which one to update? I’ve tried this with several different stories by different authors, so I don’t think that it’s particular to one. I can workaround by putting the versions in a separate Calibre library, but that means that I can’t have the current and old versions open at the same time because Calibre always crashes right after switching libraries, and can’t be restarted until all open stories have been closed. Alternately, I can re-download the story as new each time, but that just seems like bad practice because of the increased load on the host. Also, I’d need to re-do any custom metadata (of which there’s often a fair bit).

Separately, Calibre reliably crashes in the following cases:
- I right click a story and choose Fanfiction Downloader > Update Existing Story (this is why I use the method in the second paragraph for updating stories)
Thanks! I’m trying to get the Story ID (and Favs and Follows) to appear on the autogenerated cover (the default FFDL one, not the default one from Calibre), and the standard calibre IDs column doesn’t. When it appeared as a character it did. Though it wasn’t ideal it was easy to tell what it was. I was hoping that if I had it as a custom column it might, though having tried it, it apparently doesn’t work that way. Now I’m trying to find the setting for the defaults for what metadata goes into the cover.

Other changed behaviour issues: I’m a beta reader, so sometimes I want to have different historical versions of a story in my library for comparison. I used to do this at occasional break points (for AO3 and FF.net anyway) by downloading a new copy, and appending “, version number” or something, to the title of the old one. Subsequent updates via URL would update the one with the original title. Now this doesn’t work. When I try using ‘If Story Already Exists? Update EPUB if New Chapters’ the log says “More than one identical book--can’t tell which to update/overwrite” despite the fact that they don’t have the same title. Is there somewhere else that I can need to add a difference in order for it to be able to tell which one to update? I’ve tried this with several different stories by different authors, so I don’t think that it’s particular to one. I can workaround by putting the versions in a separate Calibre library, but that means that I can’t have the current and old versions open at the same time because Calibre always crashes right after switching libraries, and can’t be restarted until all open stories have been closed. Alternately, I can re-download the story as new each time, but that just seems like bad practice because of the increased load on the host. Also, I’d need to re-do any custom metadata (of which there’s often a fair bit).

Separately, Calibre reliably crashes in the following cases:
- I right click a story and choose Fanfiction Downloader > Update Existing Story (this is why I use the method in the second paragraph for updating stories)
- I click on either the FFDL icon in the toolbar, or FanFictionDownloader in the menu bar, and then follow that by almost anything that switches away from the main Calibre window. e.g.: directly by selecting Configure Plugin, or clicking away somewhere else in Calibre to dismiss the dropdown, then switching to another window, whether by clicking another window, the Dock, opening a story (which automatically switches to another window), opening the tag manager, or using Command + Tab to switch applications. It seems to be fine with my doing stuff until switching to another window - I can resort by different tags/authors/etc.., I can use the dropdowns for saved searches and finding items in the tag browser, I can retitle something via two spaced out clicks. Anything that switches away from the main Calibre window after clicking either one though and about a second later and “calibre quit unexpectedly”. If the other window was a Calibre one that requires opening, it may or may not complete. Opening stories usually does, About Plugin likewise, the Tag Manager doesn’t. This is not the case with other menu bar or toolbar items.

It’s not a huge thing, since I can get to configuring via Calibre > Preferences > Advanced > Plugins > User Interface Plugins > FFDL, and Add via URL (using the keyboard shortcut), it’s just cumbersome, annoying, and I’m sure isn’t supposed to work that way. I’m running Calibre 0.8.62, FFDL 1.6.0 on Mac OS 10.7.4. The other user plugins I have installed are Count Pages 1.6.0, Epub Merge 1.2.0, Generate Cover 1.5.4, and Webscription 1.0.2. I have the system generated crash report, but it’s long so I suspect I shouldn’t put the whole thing up here. Is there a different one I should send? Or should I send it, but not to the forum?

It’s not a huge thing, since I can get to configuring via Calibre > Preferences > Advanced > Plugins > User Interface Plugins > FFDL, and Add via URL (using the keyboard shortcut), it’s just cumbersome, annoying, and I’m sure isn’t supposed to work that way. I’m running Calibre 0.8.62, FFDL 1.6.0 on Mac OS 10.7.4. The other user plugins I have installed are Count Pages 1.6.0, Epub Merge 1.2.0, Generate Cover 1.5.4, and Webscription 1.0.2. I have the system generated crash report, but it’s long so I suspect I shouldn’t put the whole thing up here. Is there a different one I should send? Or should I send it, but not to the forum?