Merging duplicates deletes document from collection

hteh703

Hi,

I have two collections and I would want to delete the first one and keep the second one. However, I have done some tagging of the papers for the first collection and would like to merge them if they appear in the second collection as well, before deleting the first collection.

However, when I was merging the duplicates (there are quite a lot of them), I noticed that the number of papers for the second collection was reducing.

I have about 810 papers for my second collection and was left with 200+ after merging the duplicates. But, my first collection was not affected and the numbers remained the same.

I thought merging a duplicate would still retain the paper in both collections (but only one copy in the library)? Anyone else having the same problem or is there a way to work around this?

Cheers.

dstillman

I'm not totally following that — if you think there's a bug, the best thing would be simple steps to reproduce with new collections and items — but I would think the easiest thing to do here would just be to drag all items from one collection into the other. Items already in both collections will be ignored, and missing items will be added to the target collection. You could then merge duplicates as necessary.

hteh703

Thanks for your reply. I re-did the whole thing (deleted and re-downloaded the second collection again) and it worked.

I have a feeling it's either because I was syncing at the same time or because I was using an auto-clicker for merging, which might be merging the duplicates too fast.

Either way, it's solved :)

Thanks once again!