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Originally Posted by DoctorOhh
Again, run library maintenance and see what it reports. It allows you to check the folder structure and files against what is in the database. I tested this with an empty folder and it found it and allowed me to delete it. |
I have been playing around with this issue relative to Calibre fixing it automatically. I find usually, not all the time, that the Author name is different (usually reversed) when Calibre creates a second folder for the same author. As mentioned previously, by changing the Author name and then exiting Calibre, the files are moved to the proper folder. But that does not work 100% of the time.
I find by selecting all books for an Author, “Editing Metadata in Bulk” and then changing the Author name to the format I want, Calibre will always transfer all books to the correct folder.
Let’s say you have two folders, “Doe, John and John Doe.” Five books are in “Doe, John” and three books are in “John Doe.” Select all, edit metadata in bulk, type “Doe, John” in the author field and apply. The three books in “John Doe” will have been moved to “Doe, John” and the “John Doe” folder deleted unless it was locked by another program.
A nice side benefit to this is the elimination of duplicates. Calibre will not move duplicates to the new folder. They will remain in the old folder. I tried this process on an author with 207 books in two folders. The “John Doe” folder had 15 books in it. After editing metadata in bulk it had 7 books left. I checked each one and found out it was a duplicate. I have tried other Authors and it works every time.