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DavidTC · 10-16-2020, 12:44 AM

So, a feature request:

I play around with metadata parsing a lot, over and over again, and I obviously have a saved metadata column. And when I'm doing that, I change the option to 'Update Calibre Metadata from Saved Metadata Column'.

And then I'm done, and I don't remember to change it back to 'Always Update EPUB if New Chapters', and I do the email update. And of course, it doesn't update the existing stories. I did tell it to start popping up the confirmation box, but I still will forget to change it, or miss it.

And of course, with the email update, it has now marked those emails as read. So I have to go to my email, mark them all as read (paying attention to how many emails I have to go back) and then run the entire damn thing again. So this is sorta unique extra annoyance with email.

So, can we perhaps always update existing stories on email?

I understand this ability to ignore existing books when updating individual URLs, or page-scrapped URLs, you might already have some of the books and know it, and don't want to hit the servers for no reason. We all sometimes lose our place when adding from tabs or paging through stories or whatever and copy a URL twice.

But email? What's the Use Case here? Just...randomly marking my email as read?

So, I'd like to ask for a an 'override default existing story option' checkbox on the Email Settings tab.

Or, and this might be more consistent, you could have three different defaults on the first tab, one for 'Default when run on an existing Calibre book', one for 'Default when manually adding URLs directly or via page scrap', and one for 'Default when getting URLs from email'. (Or maybe you only need two and the last two could be merged.)

10-16-2020, 12:44 AM	#4626
DavidTC Connoisseur Posts: 77 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: Nook, Boox C67ML	So, a feature request: I play around with metadata parsing a lot, over and over again, and I obviously have a saved metadata column. And when I'm doing that, I change the option to 'Update Calibre Metadata from Saved Metadata Column'. And then I'm done, and I don't remember to change it back to 'Always Update EPUB if New Chapters', and I do the email update. And of course, it doesn't update the existing stories. I did tell it to start popping up the confirmation box, but I still will forget to change it, or miss it. And of course, with the email update, it has now marked those emails as read. So I have to go to my email, mark them all as read (paying attention to how many emails I have to go back) and then run the entire damn thing again. So this is sorta unique extra annoyance with email. So, can we perhaps always update existing stories on email? I understand this ability to ignore existing books when updating individual URLs, or page-scrapped URLs, you might already have some of the books and know it, and don't want to hit the servers for no reason. We all sometimes lose our place when adding from tabs or paging through stories or whatever and copy a URL twice. But email? What's the Use Case here? Just...randomly marking my email as read? So, I'd like to ask for a an 'override default existing story option' checkbox on the Email Settings tab. Or, and this might be more consistent, you could have three different defaults on the first tab, one for 'Default when run on an existing Calibre book', one for 'Default when manually adding URLs directly or via page scrap', and one for 'Default when getting URLs from email'. (Or maybe you only need two and the last two could be merged.)