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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
I'm not clear as to why you want the files in the calibre library to have updated metadata? When you want to send them to a device or save them to disk, the metadata is updated automatically, so why do you car about the state of the metadata in the in library copies?
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Well, the most obvious reason would be if you're tweaking ebook files that you want to give other people to read. Another is, for backup purposes, or copying book files to another computer.
As for saving files to disk, didn't you just explain to me in another thread that when you Save the files, the metadata is included in the .opd file that accompanies the book file, but is not actually incorporated into the book file itself until you Add it back into the library? (That's what I understood you to say; maybe I got it wrong.) This process results in multiple copies of the book file, all slightly different, and it can quickly become hard to keep track of which is which.
So, if I'm trying to correct something in a book file that I'm going to send to my friend Jane, or put up for download, or add to the MR library, I start to feel like I'm chasing my tail until I know I have a book that'll be right in someone else's device.