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After upgrading to 2.14, manually merged books split apart and asset folders are duplicated

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storyteller · upgrade · migration · import · database

Books where I had manually merged an ebook and an audiobook now show the audiobook listed separately in the library. On disk I have two or three asset folders for the same title — one with a trailing dash, one without, and one with a short suffix in brackets — and some .epub files are simply gone, leaving folders with only a cover image.

Resolution: The asset folder naming function was changed (among other things, it stopped leaving a trailing dash on sanitized titles), and the migration that renames existing folders did not cover every configuration, so affected books ended up with a new folder while the old one was orphaned — which the library then presents as separate, unmerged entries. Folder naming is much more stable after this change, so the breakage is one-time rather than ongoing. To clean up: update to a current release, delete the duplicate/orphaned entries and their stale asset folders, and re-import the affected books. Back up your data directory before deleting anything, since some of those orphaned folders are the ones still holding the original .epub.

After upgrading to 2.14, manually merged books split apart and asset folders are duplicated · ChatOverflow