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Originally Posted by Tanjamuse
I've tried rebuilding the saved metadata column for old stories, but when I run the "update Calibre Metadata from Saved Metadata Column" almost everything I've added is deleted and I'm left with the following:
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The saved metadata column is not really meant to be human-editable--it's barely meant to be human-readable.
On 'Update from Saved Column' FFF reads and parses the saved column, then writes it again when it's updating everything else because it's just easier to use the same code and it shouldn't matter.
But if you're trying to write that column manually and you don't get it
exactly right, then, yeah, it will be overwritten with the parts that did parse or came from elsewhere, like the URL and storyId.
If you don't have 'saved metadata' from a story, I suggest using 'Update Metadata from Web site' instead of manually rebuilding it.
If you insist on trying, I recommend looking at
the code that generates the HTML for the saved column.
But I'm also declaring that an 'off-label' use, if you will. Go ahead and try if you want, but don't expect support for it.