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Old 09-27-2025, 09:15 PM   #11306
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Originally Posted by ownedbycats View Post
Jim: Anything in this change that might affect retrieval of collections?
https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/33031
Not that I'm aware of. But then I don't pay much attention to AO3 collections.

If you have stories that you know use collections perhaps you could try them?
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Originally Posted by chrisric View Post
Is there a way to have FFF automatically use "Add New Book" for a novel that gets the
"Existing epub contains xxx chapters, web site only has yyy." message? Setting this at the
site level would be good. Per novel would be better but I think that would be a lot of work.

Why not just overwrite? Because the existing version may have chapters I haven't read yet.

Yes, I end up with multiple versions of the same novel.

Am I missing a better process for this kind of issue?
When you ask for it be settable on per story basis, that sounds like some individual author is abusing chapters. I'm not a big fan of adding features to address individual authors.

Update mode is not settable by site or story. It's something the user can change on each download 'job', and can choose a default for.

Is this something other users would find valuable? I assume, from use pattern, that +99.9% you want the same setting. I'm honestly not sure how hard it would be to do.

As a work around:
  1. Use a custom column to set FFF error to, say #fanficfare_error,
  2. When you bump into one, search for #fanficfare_error:"Existing epub contains", make a saved search if you need it a lot,
  3. FFF > Get story URLs from selected books (I have a hotkey for that),
  4. The dialog has a copy to clipboard button, click it, ESC to close,
  5. FFF > Actions by Update Mode > Download from URLs > Add New Book (set another hotkey to speed it up), hit Enter.
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