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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
 Umm, okay. Wow. That's a lot.
First, without example story URLs that exhibit the problems, all I can do is speculate. Whereas, if I have actual story URLs, I can try it and see the issue.
That's a general rule around here--doesn't matter what you want help with--I want a story URL that exhibits the issue.
Second, you apparently have a quite complex metadata setup. You may think you've isolated the parts that cause your issues--and you may well be right.
However, if you're going to come to with five different, complex issues at once, I'd like to have your complete personal.ini to test with. You can use the 'View "Safe" personal.ini' button to automatically strip your user/pass settings.
Alternatively, if you are strongly opposed to sharing your settings, I will try a stripped down version, if you confirm that it still exhibits the issues described.
Third, AO3 tag normalizing/wrangling comes up over and over again. I'm not going to go over all of it again, but AO3's decision to allow authors to input basically anything--and any number of anything--as tags makes normalizing problematic at best.
Personally, I consider it futile. But I will help with specific problems. |
I agree it pretty much is futile, but it's mainly the ships and a handful of certain tags I'm focused on cleaning up a bit - I'm sure it does come up quite often, so I tried my best to go through your past replies and your wiki on github, and did some regex learning so that I wouldn't be wasting your time with regex questions, but alas this is where I got to, so I do appreciate any guidance you can provide
I actually have been using a stripped down personal.ini, as that was the first I thing I used to start testing with when trying to track down the issues
Working through the first question a bit more, I believe I did track down the issue - I was using "Update Existing Fanfiction Books" - this works on fics that still have tags remaining after the updated filtering in personal.ini is applied, but the fics I was having problems with should have had no tags after the filtering is applied - I then deleted the fic, and re-brought it in and it was filtered correctly with no tags, this was also the case for using test1.com
Deleting and re-adding also worked for the capitalization issue for ships, even though I wasn't trying to apply any filtering or be left with zero tags in that case
Not sure if that's what is supposed to happen or if there was something obvious I was missing regarding that issue, so I apologize if that was the case - if you'd still like an example I can provide one
For the custom column question - here is an example fic:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/19784374 - and below is the personal.ini, similar to before - mainly just looking for any guidance on how to properly be referencing custom columns in personal.ini
Code:
[defaults]
is_adult:true
[epub]
[archiveofourown.org]
[overrides]
include_subject_tags: genre
add_to_extra_valid_entries:,time
include_in_time:genre
exclude_metadata_post:
time=~^Post
For aligning ship names - this one (
https://archiveofourown.org/works/21923320) has Michelle Jones/Peter Parker - and this one (
https://archiveofourown.org/works/18638395) has Peter Parker/Michelle Jones - was just curious if it was possible to parse and alphabetize the tag to be more efficient, but otherwise I can just do it manually as below
Code:
[defaults]
is_adult:true
[epub]
[archiveofourown.org]
[overrides]
include_subject_tags: genre
replace_metadata:
ships=>Peter Parker/Michelle Jones=>Michelle Jones/Peter Parker
I tried to edit a final question regarding version updating right after I previously posted, but I don't think it went through - I cannot update beyond Calibre 3.48 due to OS limitations, and I am currently using FFF 3.11.0 - are there any concerns I should have regarding updating FFF to newer versions, or will it remain backwards compatible? - If this is something you mention in release notes posted somewhere each time, could you please point me to a link where? I've seen the release notes mentioned here in posts, but wasn't sure if there was somewhere like a github page I can reference for the most recent version