[GUI Plugin] Find Duplicates

[maripopa]

Originally Posted by luciaisacat

In these cases, I just add a temporary tag to the resulting titles so that I could call it back when I wish to work on those entries. Too simple?
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I'll try it. thank you!

[kiwidude]

[Release Notes]
https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr...icates-v1.10.9

[kksdragons]

I'm trying to cleanup my humungous library of almost 10,000 books. Duplicates were created when I moved Calibre from a Windows to iMac machine several years ago. It was more than I could deal with at the time but am now trying to fix my library. I have thousands of duplicates using binary and title/author matches. I removed duplicate formats using binary but still have the now empty books entry.

Is there a way to remove thousands of entries based on various criteria? Specifically, I'd like to be able to remove entries based on Empty or Original_epub formats, older date vs. newer date, etc. It's just way too many matches to do each duplicate group at a time!

I have the updated plugin running on Calibre 6.29 (most recent version for my aging Mac).

Thanks!

[luciaisacat]

Originally Posted by kksdragons

I'm trying to cleanup my humungous library of almost 10,000 books. Duplicates were created when I moved Calibre from a Windows to iMac machine several years ago. It was more than I could deal with at the time but am now trying to fix my library. I have thousands of duplicates using binary and title/author matches. I removed duplicate formats using binary but still have the now empty books entry.

Is there a way to remove thousands of entries based on various criteria? Specifically, I'd like to be able to remove entries based on Empty or Original_epub formats, older date vs. newer date, etc. It's just way too many matches to do each duplicate group at a time!

I have the updated plugin running on Calibre 6.29 (most recent version for my aging Mac).

Thanks!

I don't have an overall recipe for your needs, however empty formats could be groped just by searching "format:false". I hope it is useful.

[theducks]

and using the Tag Browser: Formats: Original_... to show those books, then use a delete selected format

[kksdragons]

Thank you both for your help! I now have a library of only 7.293 books! Sure showed how rusty I've become that I didn't even think of using regular expressions!

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by kksdragons

I'm trying to cleanup my humungous library of almost 10,000 books. Duplicates were created when I moved Calibre from a Windows to iMac machine several years ago. It was more than I could deal with at the time but am now trying to fix my library. I have thousands of duplicates using binary and title/author matches. I removed duplicate formats using binary but still have the now empty books entry.

Is there a way to remove thousands of entries based on various criteria? Specifically, I'd like to be able to remove entries based on Empty or Original_epub formats, older date vs. newer date, etc. It's just way too many matches to do each duplicate group at a time!

I have the updated plugin running on Calibre 6.29 (most recent version for my aging Mac).

Thanks!

You can do a binary compare, you can select the option to delete the duplicates automatically. That might help some. Then the next compare is a title/author and you will have to manually decide which one to keep.

[JohnnyBook]

Just recently used Find Duplicates again after not using it for a couple years. (found 17 binary compare duplicates)

I noticed as I was finishing that there were various colored push pin symbols in the first column. But I had already deleted the Dups so could not check if there was a pattern in IDing the duplicates.

Is there a specific reason for the different colors?

[kiwidude]

Not as far as this plugin is concerned, the colors have no useful meaning. It is a feature of calibre called temporary markers, it originally never had any sort of UI visibility at all. Then Kovid turned it into a user accessible feature with its own menu options to use and those drawing pins to see which rows are “marked” rather than something that only plugins made use of.

[revtup]

I have a lot of ebooks and Calibre's duplicates plug in will not detect duplicates. I know there are some duplicates but not sure what options I need to have turned on or not.

Tried to post some pics to explain but they will not upload

[theducks]

New (low activity) members can't post pictures or attachments as a Anti-Spam measure.

Here is mine. (attachment).
Note: the options on what to do with some of the results (eg false positive), is on the Icon, not the results screen.

[JSWolf]

@revtup When asking a question about a calibre plugin, find the thread in the calibre plugins forum and ask in the thread about the plugin. Thanks.

[revtup]

@JSWOLF Is this not a Calibre plugin thread?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by revtup

@JSWOLF Is this not a Calibre plugin thread?

This is the plugins forum. It's not the thread for Find Duplicates. The URL below is where you want to be posting/reading.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=131017

[revtup]

Thanks