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jlutes · 01-04-2018, 10:38 AM

I have recently been working on an old library and noticed there are a number of Author(s) fields that have had a portion of the data replicated. For instance, what used to be "Martina Cole" is now "Martina Colemartina Cole". To make it more interesting, I also see what was
"Hans Christian Andersen & Harry Clarke & Marte Hvam Hult & Jack Zipes"
is now:
"Hans Christian Andersen & Harry Clarke & Marte Hvam Hult & Jack ZipesHans Christian Anderson"
...and it's not every book. It seems somewhat random if it has duplicate data or not.

I vaguely remember this was a known bug some time ago and I'm going to hope the damage was caused way back when but I'm not finding info on the issue now (I may not be searching the right terms).

Is there a fix for this or am I stuck manually editing all of these records?

01-04-2018, 10:38 AM	#1
jlutes Connoisseur Posts: 52 Karma: 12 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	Duplicate Authors I have recently been working on an old library and noticed there are a number of Author(s) fields that have had a portion of the data replicated. For instance, what used to be "Martina Cole" is now "Martina Colemartina Cole". To make it more interesting, I also see what was "Hans Christian Andersen & Harry Clarke & Marte Hvam Hult & Jack Zipes" is now: "Hans Christian Andersen & Harry Clarke & Marte Hvam Hult & Jack ZipesHans Christian Anderson" ...and it's not every book. It seems somewhat random if it has duplicate data or not. I vaguely remember this was a known bug some time ago and I'm going to hope the damage was caused way back when but I'm not finding info on the issue now (I may not be searching the right terms). Is there a fix for this or am I stuck manually editing all of these records?