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Old 01-04-2018, 10:38 AM   #1
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I have recently been working on an old library and noticed there are a number of Author(s) fields that have had a portion of the data replicated. For instance, what used to be "Martina Cole" is now "Martina Colemartina Cole". To make it more interesting, I also see what was
"Hans Christian Andersen & Harry Clarke & Marte Hvam Hult & Jack Zipes"
is now:
"Hans Christian Andersen & Harry Clarke & Marte Hvam Hult & Jack ZipesHans Christian Anderson"
...and it's not every book. It seems somewhat random if it has duplicate data or not.

I vaguely remember this was a known bug some time ago and I'm going to hope the damage was caused way back when but I'm not finding info on the issue now (I may not be searching the right terms).

Is there a fix for this or am I stuck manually editing all of these records?
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Sorry, Calibre 3.14
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There was a bug in the Barnes & Noble metadata plugin that caused this type of author name corruption, reported in July 2016. It was fixed in August of that year. (That plugin has subsequently become non-functional due to website change at B&N.)

You should report calibre-related problems in the calibre forum.
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Is there a fix for this or am I stuck manually editing all of these records?
No auto fix, but it is fairly easy. Use the TAG BROWSER to rename those odd balls (right click on the bad name and fix it). This fixes all uses in 1 go.
It will merge exact matches.

DO NOT USE THE OS to rename folders
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