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Originally Posted by Doug-W
if there was a duplicate book, the original book had the most up to date meta data, and it was only the case where there were two books with the same title that I'd want to merge them and have the format of the newer book overwrite the format of the older book ....
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As of 0.7.45 you could have turned on the overwrite option of automerge, saved the books out of the first library and imported them into the library with the good metadata. New formats would overwrite old formats.
Once the books are in a library, you can get duplicates to merge by using the Copy To Library function and sending all the books to the new library. The problem there is that there's no current way to separate formats from metadata. You can control which metadata/format record survives by sorting, but you can't separate a format from its associated metadata.
I didn't implement the new overwrite option (one of the three options) for automerge in CTL. Isn't that always the way! I didn't see it as being very useful, but now I can see scenarios (like this) where it may be of some value.
When I get a moment, I suppose I'll implement the new options for CTL. Then you could send the books sorted by oldest date into an empty library (ignore dupe formats turned on) to build records with good metadata (and original formats), followed by sending them again (sorted the same way, but with overwrite formats turned on) to replace older formats with newer ones (which will arrive last during CTL and therefore be the surviving format in a record with the original metadata.)