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Old 01-17-2020, 04:55 AM   #1
shivahoj
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Problem: Alphabetical Author list shows number of books

Hello, I use calibre 4.8 on a Mac with OS X 10.14.6.
Since a few days, the list of authors in the sidebar on the left does not show the alphabetical sorted list of authors any more( All authors with their last name starting with an "A" sorted under "A", and so on), but instead it shows the count of books of all authors, grouped in batches of 100 .
Let me clarify:
The first line under Authors is not "A" with all its authors, but a line saying "295 - 4", and holding 100 authors which have written from 4 up to 295 books.
The next line is "4 - 2", holding the next 100 authors, that have written 2 up to 4 books, and so on. the total count of authors (1079) is correct.
I added a screenshot to show this.

I may have played with some obscure options, but I don't know where and which ones I touched.
Restoring the database from calibre's own backup did not help.
How do I get back to the old-fashioned alphabetical sorting of authors?
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