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Old 07-03-2010, 02:03 AM   #6
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Thanks, Kovid.

Like I said, I've "unfixed" my metadata so my authors now display and sort correctly (and I'm glad to hear it was one time). Sorts are now running around seven seconds for only 151 books; it used to be roughly twice as fast.
I have 1700 books and it takes less then 2 seconds to sort any column.

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I'm still curious why the author metadata changed, apparently spontaneously. Hopefully, it was a fluke.
You can be assured that it wasn't a fluke. More likely it was a feature.

The common reason this happens is when downloading metadata the downloaded Title and Author will overwrite what is there by default. Go to Preferences - General and uncheck the option to Overwrite author and title by default when fetching metadata. Unchecking this will ensure your author or title field will not be changed when fetching comments, tags, or ratings.
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