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Originally Posted by redscarlett
I have a lot of ebooks in calibre that are works-in-progress and have been downloaded via FFDL, so I use that to update them. The thing is it often wants to update fics that don't need to be updated - the log states that it wants to re-download all the chapters, and I have no idea why. Is this just a quirk?
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Without more context about what you're doing, I'm not sure what you mean.
If you download epubs and use the 'update epub if newer chapters' setting, FFDL will only update a story when there are new chapters. The only time it should re-download all the chapters is when you use 'overwrite always'.
If what are you seeing in the job log is all the "Writing chapter text for: XXX" lines, those are not downloading again--that's writing the chapters to the new, updated epub from the old existing epub.
FYI: IMO, you should use the email notifications from the sites to inform you when your stories are updated. Using FFDL to poll them for updates is rather wasteful and inflates the stories' hit counts. FFDL makes it easy by allowing you to drag and drop urls (and even whole email messages from Thunderbird) onto the FFDL button on the toolbar and the 'Add New from URL' dialog box.