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Originally Posted by enonod
in 1. I wanted to know whether the book was updated only in the dispatched book, or the original as well.
BetterRed's answer seems to be indicated by the fact that books would need to be imported back to get the changes registered.
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True, Unless you do a conversion or go out of your way using Polish or Modify Epub plugin the metadata in books are updated upon export from the calibre library. It is explained well in post 3.
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Originally Posted by enonod
In 4, as a result of that conclusion, I wanted to know why the change is made in the copy departing and leaves the original. Why not change the original and then dispatch a copy.
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Only Kovid can answer this question without speculation.
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Originally Posted by enonod
I note that if an author is changed the (sometimes very large) books are moved, which is no less time consuming and makes the folders inviolable.
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Are the books moved or is the folder simply renamed? I'm guessing the folders are simply renamed by the OS. If that OS process requires a "move" it is still a single entry in the allocation table not actually moving a large file. Either way these are a blink compared to expanding a book writing to it and re-compressing it.
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Originally Posted by enonod
When the library is moved, by invoking the wizard, does the new library have the metadata written to books?
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No.
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Originally Posted by enonod
I did this and noted that opf files were left in the old library
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Keep in mind the old opf files have nothing to do with calibre storing metadata for books. These files are used to restore the database in case of database corruption.