[bug] epub conversion - books not added as they already exist in the database

[davidancalagon]

Upon running the "Convert Library to epub" function from the web interface, CWA converts all of the non-epub books in my library to epub, saves a copy of the newly-converted files in the "imported" folder, but does not transfer them to the calibre-library folder where all of the books in my library exist. Instead, I get the following error with 99% of them:

"The following books were not added as they already exist in the database (see --duplicates option or --automerge option)"

All folder permissions are set to the same user as PUID and PGID in the docker ENV variables, so it's not a permissions issue. It seems to be an issue with the calibre db itself.

[schemen]

I ran into the same issue

[frrad]

Seems potentially related to what I described in 2 here #208

To test: if you are running in docker

$ docker exec -it calibre-web-automated /bin/bash
$ nano /app/calibre-web-automated/scripts/ingest-processor.py 

and try changing your subprocess line to match this one

Calibre-Web-Automated/scripts/ingest_processor.py

Line 179 in 4951b29

subprocess.run(["calibredb", "add", book_path, "--automerge", "new_record", f"--library-path={self.library_dir}"], check=True)

see if that fixes it for you

[crocodilestick]

Fixed as of V3.0.1