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Originally Posted by DNSB
Please note that exporting the ebook (Save to disk, Send to device, etc.) will update the metadata in the file for some formats. The files in the calibre library will not be updated unless you Polish them (and I'm note even certain that will work for mobi).
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Sure, I understand now. That's why I ran the test both ways, to see if it made a difference. In this particular case, it did not -- the metadata in the exported file was the same as the metadata in the Calibre library file.
To be clear, the problem I identified (and jhowell replicated) where Calibre drops the second author in the "Author sort" field occurs to files in the Calibre Library. That is not an artifact of exporting to a disk/device. I tested that by adding the original Calibre Library file back into my Library (as though it was a new book). When I added it back, the second author was missing. That file had not been exported or further processed in any way after its initial creation (coveting a Word file to a mobi file) by Calibre.