Comment 4 for bug 1593027

Wow, no dust on you!

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 5:20 AM, Kovid Goyal <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is
> usually released every Friday.
>
> status fixreleased
>
> ** Changed in: calibre
> Status: New => Fix Released
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> Title:
> Copy to library takes 30 times longer than import
>
> Status in calibre:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Calibre 2.58 on Ubuntu 14.04.
> I have a large library >450k books. When I import books, I import into
> an empty library so I can edit metadata quickly. This includes, typically,
> switching Author and Title fields, correcting Authors with commas, setting
> language to English, eliminating dates from Author fields, etc. When
> finished, I can either import the books from the small library directory,
> or copy the books to the large library. The import loses some edits as it
> re-reads data from the files themselves. The library copy works better,
> but takes MUCH longer, like multiple days to import 4k files into the large
> library. I think the library copy should be faster, not much slower, as it
> should just be copying the metadata from the database to the other
> database. The import is re-reading the files and getting bad data again.
> The correcting edits then take much longer, as updating the large library
> takes a minute or so for each individual edit.
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