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Originally Posted by serana

First of all, a huge THANK YOU to JimmXinu for this fantastic plugin! I've been using it for a while and I absolutely love it .

Originally Posted by serana

Does FFF only add a new chapter or does it also replace older, modified (e.g. edited after I downloaded them initially) chapters? If a chapter gets deleted from FFN/AO3, does FFF delete that chapter from calibre, as well?

This actually depends on number of chapters, how the site assigns chapter urls, and (possibly) what the author did.

FFF's default update, Update EPUB if New Chapters decides whether to update or not purely by chapter count. If the site has more chapters, it goes into update, if not, it doesn't. It would be more accurately named 'if MORE chapters'.

If the site has more chapters (or you invoked Update EPUB Always), FFF looks at the chapter URLs fetched from the site and the chapter URLs saved in the epub, and fetches any chapters it doesn't already have. If FFF already has a chapter downloaded for a chapter URL, it does not download it again.

So if an author deletes a chapter and adds another one on a site like ffnet that simply numbers chapters, FFF has no way to know. On a site like AO3, the same operation will have a different chapter number and be detected and downloaded.

On sites like SV/SB, if an author removes a post from the threadmarks(aka chapter list) and adds a different one, it will be detected. But if they edit the existing post, it will not.

On large fics, I personally use Calibre's Edit book feature to remove chapters I know the author has changed before running FFF update again. I don't have a better solution at this time.

Originally Posted by serana

I'd also like to know if it's possible to run the updating of new chapters and the updating of metadata at the same time. As far as I figured during my fiddling with it, it's only possible to do either. Meaning, a story will get updated on the chapter and on the metadata if it has a new chapter, but it won't get a metadata update if there's no new chapter. I noticed that when I had to populate a couple of new custom columns with the last update-date. How can I tell FFF to do both?

If I understand you correctly, Update EPUB Always will do what you want.

However, if you created and set a Saved Metadata Column, you can use Update Calibre Metadata from Saved Metadata Column to fill in new custom columns using the metadata gathered on your last download.

Originally Posted by FanFicFareFan

Hi! First off, I'd just like to say how much I love FFF. I use it all the time!

Originally Posted by FanFicFareFan

That said, I seem to be experiencing a problem. I can no longer seem do download from index posts in SB. Tried it with the example post you showed on Github ("Silence") and in both cases, only the individual post is downloaded, like a one-shot post, but the post at the top of the page is being used for the comments/first page. Is it an issue with my settings, the latest build or a matter with SB itself? Normal threadmark downloads still seem to work.

Please include story URLs when reporting issues. I assume you mean Silent.

It looks like there is a bug I introduced last month while refactoring for an upcoming SV change. I'll post a new test version once I have it figured out.

The more common cases of threadmarks and first-post index look fine.

Originally Posted by noirverse

Thank you, I fiddled with the code, stripping anything that wasn't what I wanted and managed to fix the issue I was having!