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Originally Posted by chilady1
I don't understand anything you have said above - can you explain what you mean? I really do want to get Smith, Linda and Smith_Linda resolved so I don't have two separate folders for the same author. Can someone explain to me how to accomplish this?
NOTE: I have found the Quality Check plug-in takes care of the above, it finds duplicate author folders and consolidates them and uses the new naming convention with a comma not the underscore _.
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What he means is, if you try to simply restore an older database, it will be out of sync with the actual folders used.
Every time you edit author or title metadata, or add new formats and book records, it writes that to the library folder, according to the filename path: {author}\{title} ({id})\{title} - {author}.{format} and most importantly, the database uses the file location to write new data to the book, and open/save/send the book. If the database says everything is in one place, because it used to be there, but a later version of the database changed that, then your books might as well not exist as far as the database is concerned, since it can't find them. It might not even find that out for a while, thus filling your library with scattered extra records that don't REALLY have any books in them.