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Originally Posted by hotwired
I have 3-4 of each book with a number in parenthesis after it. For example in my Stephen King folder I might have
A Face in the Crowd (869)
A Face in the Crowd (2)
Approximately 85% of my library is duplicates like this basically from sloppy "quick" conversion using Calibre (my sloppines, not Calibres). However, when using the find duplicates plugin, and trying every parameter possible, it shows NO DUPLICATES. I tried ccCleaner and that finally found them all but it's only finding them by folder. Only ONE folder has .mobi file in it while the DUPLICATE folder has .epubs so I can't just check off random duplicates in cccleaner because I might be deleting the only folder containing the .mobi which is my preferred format.
Thanks for any tips or alternate pieces of software ... I could take a week off work and do alot of "point, click and delete" but I'd rather not if I don't have to! Thanks all!!
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Hotwired:
The Find Duplicates plug-in uses metadata.db. Your library's metadata.db apparently no longer reflects reality due to (forbidden) manual changes to the the library's OS directory structure and contents.
Try this:
[1] Stop manually changing the library's directory structure and contents.
[2] Click Library > Library Maintenance > Check Library and then let Calibre thoroughly check your library, show you what is wrong, and then fix it. Repeat this step as many times as needed until your library is "clean".
[3] Using Bulk Edit Metadata for 100% of your books, "Automatically Set Author Sort", "Change Title to Title Case", and then finally "Update Title Sort".
[4] Using the Quality Check plug-in, standardize the Author Names as FN LN or LN,FN (your choice), but make all of the books comply with your choice.
[5] Using the Quality Check plug-in, standardize the Author Initials.
[6] Run Find Duplicates again.
DaltonST