Thread: Calibre Kobo Utilities - Wishlist!!
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Old 09-05-2017, 07:52 PM   #36
davidfor
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Originally Posted by milady133 View Post
That's what I was doing, but I have some problem with my plugin configuration, so forcing an update of the metadata of the books I already have in the device wreaks havoc on the shelves structure of other books I'm not updating (deletes the other books from their shelves), so I'm doing it directly on the database.
If there is a problem with the plugin that needs to be fixed, then tell me and I'll look at it. But, I can't think of any way that updating metadata would affect collections unless you are updating the metadata used for the collections. And in that case, isn't that supposed to happen? Of course, it also depends on where you update the metadata. Changing the metadata in calibre doesn't get pushed to the device except for collections and series info. That's done by the driver when the device connects and depends on options. If you use the utilities plugin to update the metadata on the device, then it doesn't affect the collections.
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Besides, I wanted to restore the date created for books I haven't read yet, so the order by date in my TBR collection works for when I'm not in the mood for a particular genre and I want to read just the next book that's been waiting for ages there (yes, I'm picky and I have a really LOOOONG To Be Read pile)
You mean like setting the date for the book on the device to something like the date the book was added to your calibre library? Or maybe the publishing date? If so, I posted a beta of the plugin with options to do this a couple of weeks ago. It is in the plugins thread in the calibre forum.
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Now I'm thinking, I should put my retired Kobo Mini to work and try to figure out why the manual update metadata doesn't work.
If you run calibre in debug mode and post the log, I can look and see if there is anything strange going on. Of course, if an error is being displayed, then post the full details for me to see.
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