This is just a minor annoyance. However to anyone who relies on modified date in some way it may be more than that.
Say I have a publisher - 'Yale Law'. When I add a new 'book' from there, I enter the value into the publisher cell on the spreadsheet. Normally I'll enter 'yal↓' and pick up 'Yale Law' from the drop down list, but when I'm on a 'roll' I'll enter 'yale law<tab>'.
Whooshka all the 'books' that were 'Yale Law' are changed to 'yale law', all their opf files are rewritten and all their modified dates are updated to 'now'.
I usually spot the 'error' when I sight check the metadata and then I change it to Yale Law and they all change back again :lol: The only impact this has on me is that 1126 opf files will be backed up when tonight's shutdown script executes
Is there anyway to stop this happening?
Another thing that causes a mass update of book metadata is if I enter a new, or change an existing, Author Link value in Manage Authors. All the opf files for the author's books are rewritten and the modified date is updated. I don't care about this instance - because it doesn't happen inadvertently, and I appreciate why it its necessary - I think.
However it would be nice to have something that prevented me from overtyping a Proper Case name with the same Lower Case name (or similar) - maybe by popping an "are you really sure you wanna do this' question. I've fallen down this rabbit hole about 6-7 times in that last couple of days.
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