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Originally Posted by sandmanwake
I'm getting odd behaviors from v4.38 of FFF on SB and QQ where if I have a story already downloaded and the author changed the title of the story or how their name is spelled, it'll download the story again under the new title. Now, I have two copies of the story downloaded.
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Well, this is annoying. I just added code in v4.38 specifically to match changed story URLs to existing books for the Xenforo forum sites (SB/SV/QQ).
However, that code assumes that the thread ID number never changes. If it does, FFF
will consider it a different story.
How did you start the 'update' that resulted in the second download? Email? Manual from URL?
If you have both the before and after books, please post both story URLs so I can see. (Or PM to me if NSFW.)
FYI, you can also always select the book in your library and hit FFF's "Update Existing Fanfiction Book" option to update that specific book, even if there's more than one copy for whatever reason.
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Originally Posted by sandmanwake
I try to update by dragging the link from the website to the FFF download/update box since there's a new chapter and I get an error with a comment in the logs stating: "More than one identical book by Identifier URL or title/author(s)--can't tell which book to update/overwrite."
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I assume you meant you tried to update the one you have two books for. FFF doesn't know which to update, so it bails rather than make a mistake.
That also suggests that the code for matching changed story URLs did work in that case...
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Originally Posted by sandmanwake
A similar thing happens if I have two copies of the same story from two different websites already downloaded, say SB and A03. The A03 copy updates just fine. However, an attempt to update the SB one results in the same message.
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Same story from different sites should never match existing book by story URL.
However, if you have the "Search by Title/Author(s) for If Story Already Exists?" option checked (FFF General settings tab, right side, Misc box), it will find stories with the same title and author, even from different sites. That's kinda what it's for.
Story URLs?
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Originally Posted by sandmanwake
What's even odder is that I occasionally get a story on SB where it doesn't appear that anything changed with the title, Author, or URL, yet I get the same message, like it doesn't recognize the book already downloaded from SB as the one to update.
It happened with this one, for instance: https://forums.spacebattles.com/thre...uto-au.856521/ |
Do you still have the epubs(s) in question? Can I see them?