How to avoid the "Duplicate found" dialog

halloleo · 11-25-2020, 01:42 AM

I quite often have PDFs which are badly prepared regarding metadata, because they might have generic title data like "Microsoft Word - Title.doc"

Then it easily happens that different documents have the same generic title, but they are still different documents. So I always want to add the new documents. For this everytime I have to click OK in the "Duplicate found" dialog which pops up:

Is there a way (in the settings or the tweak section) to tell calibre to always add the new documents even if a document with the same title already exists?

Thanks for any pointers!

DNSB · 11-25-2020, 01:49 AM

Have you checked out the "Control the adding of books" item at the end of the "Add books" dropdown menu? Under "Adding Actions", you could enable the "Auto-merge added books if they already exist" and set the dropdown action to "Create new record for each duplicate format".

Good luck!

11-25-2020, 01:42 AM	#1
halloleo Groupie Posts: 156 Karma: 12649 Join Date: Feb 2020 Device: iPad	How to avoid the "Duplicate found" dialog I quite often have PDFs which are badly prepared regarding metadata, because they might have generic title data like "Microsoft Word - Title.doc" Then it easily happens that different documents have the same generic title, but they are still different documents. So I always want to add the new documents. For this everytime I have to click OK in the "Duplicate found" dialog which pops up: Is there a way (in the settings or the tweak section) to tell calibre to always add the new documents even if a document with the same title already exists? Thanks for any pointers! Last edited by halloleo; 11-25-2020 at 01:48 AM.

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11-25-2020, 01:49 AM	#2
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 44,487 Karma: 167912829 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	Have you checked out the "Control the adding of books" item at the end of the "Add books" dropdown menu? Under "Adding Actions", you could enable the "Auto-merge added books if they already exist" and set the dropdown action to "Create new record for each duplicate format". Good luck!