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rolk · 07-06-2014, 05:39 PM

Hi,

I've gone through help files, and the obligatory Google searches but it seems I'm being bothered by a unique problem. Perhaps someone can ease my pain

Here's the thing: I've got a whole bunch of epub's in my Calibre library that have a title formatted something like:

title := "[SomeCategoryName - Number] Actual title"

title_sort is identical to that.

I'm trying to edit the titles of these epubs, I want the stuff between brackets removed, but keep it in title_sort (as I find it quite helpful to keep things together, I just don't want this structuring info be part of the title).

I do this by selecting one of theseepubs and choose edit metadata, individually. Then I change the title. The title_sort field becomes RED, and a helpful message warns me that it is no longer in sync with the title field, but if that is what I want, its allright. I press OK.

The main display shows the updated title, but also the value of title_sort is updated (I have this as a separate column).

The really weird thing is when I then again edit the same epub, I can actually see that the title_sort field has been updated as well, but if I then change title_sort to what I want (basically pasting back in what I cut away from the title in the first edit action), and select OK, presto, title and title_sort are not automagically synchronized.

I'm quite baffled and could use some pointers to resolve this. I suspect it has to do with a Tweaked Preference, but:

I've seen this behaviour on Calibre 1.43, on both OSX as well as Windows 7. The latter is even a fresh install in which I haven't changed anything except adding this column to the main display.

07-06-2014, 05:39 PM	#1
rolk Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2014 Device: Kobo Aura	Undesired synchronization between title and title_sort Hi, I've gone through help files, and the obligatory Google searches but it seems I'm being bothered by a unique problem. Perhaps someone can ease my pain Here's the thing: I've got a whole bunch of epub's in my Calibre library that have a title formatted something like: title := "[SomeCategoryName - Number] Actual title" title_sort is identical to that. I'm trying to edit the titles of these epubs, I want the stuff between brackets removed, but keep it in title_sort (as I find it quite helpful to keep things together, I just don't want this structuring info be part of the title). I do this by selecting one of theseepubs and choose edit metadata, individually. Then I change the title. The title_sort field becomes RED, and a helpful message warns me that it is no longer in sync with the title field, but if that is what I want, its allright. I press OK. The main display shows the updated title, but also the value of title_sort is updated (I have this as a separate column). The really weird thing is when I then again edit the same epub, I can actually see that the title_sort field has been updated as well, but if I then change title_sort to what I want (basically pasting back in what I cut away from the title in the first edit action), and select OK, presto, title and title_sort are not automagically synchronized. I'm quite baffled and could use some pointers to resolve this. I suspect it has to do with a Tweaked Preference, but: I've seen this behaviour on Calibre 1.43, on both OSX as well as Windows 7. The latter is even a fresh install in which I haven't changed anything except adding this column to the main display.