Thread: How to update metatdata on the device from Calibre?
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Old 05-28-2016, 04:00 AM   #9
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Dchiplin View Post
Thanks for your very kind and easy to follow response davidfor!

I am not using a template for comments (I don't think) - just the Kobo plugboards to add series info to the title.

I tried this again today on 3 books. One book 1, I edited author name, Book 2 tags, and on Book 3 comments.


calibre, version 2.57.1
Kobo Utilities - Device library updated: Update summary:
Books updated=3
Unchanged books=0
Books not on device=0
Total books=3
According to that output, three books were updated. Is this an earlier run?
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Checked all books on Kobo and no edits were made.

I ran the debug function and updated the same 3 books - log is below. "The Sultan's Wife" is the book with the edited Comments, the Johncock book had an updated Author (not Author Sort) field, and the Babs Horton book had updated Tags.

Code:
DEBUG: 361.9 _update_metadata: number books= 3 options= {u'isbn': True, u'description': True, u'mark_not_interested': False, u'series': True, u'published_date': True, u'author': True, u'publisher': True, u'usePlugboard': False, u'subtitle': False, u'setRreadingStatus': False, u'language': True, u'title': False, u'readingStatus': -1, u'resetPosition': False, u'update_KoboEpubs': True, u'rating': False, u'descriptionTemplate': u'', u'titleSort': False, u'authourSort': True, u'subtitleTemplate': u'', u'descriptionUseTemplate': False}
The easy one: the update does nothing wit tags unless you have them in one of the templates. Hence changing them does nothing.

The next easy one: According to the line from your log above, you have selected the option to update the author using the author sort (highlighted in red). As you have not changed this, no update is done.

For the description, the log doesn't show it is being updated. Unfortunately, nothing is printed in the logs for this case. But, based on all my testing, if the comments in calibre are different from on the device, they will be updated and there will be something in the log. I have rechecked this now, and the only way for the comments not to be updated is if they have not changed.

Could you retest this? Connect the device and wait for the connection jobs to finish. Select a book that is shown as on the device, open the metadata editor, make a change to the comments and save it. Make sure the book is still selected and run the update metadata in the plugin. You should get the message saying a book has been updated. If it has, eject the device and have a look at the synopsis in the book details on the device.

If you don't get the update message, or you cannot see the update on the device, then I'll have to produce a version of the plugin with a little extra debugging to see what is going on.
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