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Originally Posted by tricklem
Quick question. I have noticed that when I am downloading in Calibre with the plugin, that sometimes that an author will do a chapter updated and then later change the status to complete. However, if I update the story again, the completed status won't download if I already have all of the chapters. I have made sure that the "new" box is not checked off, but that doesn't seem to do anything. Is there any other settings that I can amend so that it will update the status if I already have all of the chapters other than to say always update epub? I was told that if I chose always update epub instead of update epub if newer chapters, but that if an author pulled chapters from the story that I would loose what I had downloaded.
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Update EPUB if New Chapters does exactly that: update if there are more chapters than you already have.
To update only calibre metadata (including status) use
Update Calibre Metadata from Web Site.
Update EPUB Always is what you want to update the status inside the epub's title page, too.
If the author removes chapters (so you have more than the site shows) or changes chapters you have already downloaded, you need to use
Overwrite Always or
Overwrite if Newer. The later only if the updated date on the server is newer than when you last updated/edited the epub.
I vaguely recall someone asking once about how to keep copies of chapters that the author has removed from their story. If that's what you're talking about when you say
loose what I had downloaded, then you're basically on your own. Your best bet is to either hand edit status updates or download the web site version to a different book (
Add New Book). Changing the title and removing the URL Identifier in calibre from the non-website version might help.