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Originally Posted by Cyphigma
Too often I've found the "obvious" choice of which file to keep to be the wrong answer. Now how do you get that duplicate you deleted six months ago back?
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I compare, using Find Duplicates->Library Duplicates, my Intake library with my Books library, at the same time I run a CalibreSpy instance against my Books library. When FD finds a duplicate, I can eyeball compare other metadata (e.g. publisher, pubdate etc), as well as file sizes, editions, examine contents in viewers and editors etc.
If I'm in no doubt it is a true duplicate I delete from the Intake library, otherwise I tag the Intake copy with
Merge or
Investigate and move it to a Duplicates library.
I process Duplicate books I've tagged with
Merge immediately after moving non-duplicates from Intake to Books - note this is a rare event. I switch Calibre to Books and CalibreSpy to Duplicates, and do the 'merging' myself; by editing metadata in the Books library booklist cells, and/or adding/replacing formats in Duplicates to Books via DnD into the Book Detail panel, CalibreSpy has an open book folder function.
For Duplicates tagged with
Investigate, I tag the 'duplicate' in Books with
DupInvest immediately. But I do the 'investigating' as and when necessary or I'm minded. A few books I've tagged as
Investigate have been there for years.
BR