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Combining Gone Wrong?!
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Mar 13, 2014 06:02PM
Hey, the other day the Author of this book along with several other books, Cary Allen Stone, asked me to clean up goodreads as there were too many copies added that didn't exist etc so I did what he asked me to do and I followed all of the steps to combining and removing the copies that didn't exist and I cross checked with him and amazon from several hours to make sure everything was right. When I was done everything was opening right and no longer showing a half dozen copies and the combining seemed to be successful on my end and his. However today when I went to check the book for something it is giving me an error at this link https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... and I am wondering if I messed something up or if this is an internal error of some sort. I hope someone can help me fix it as I don't want something like this to happen again if it was in fact my fault, so I would prefer to have someone help me rather than do it for me if possible. If you can fix this or know whats going on you can email me at marisa@hidethematches.com with either the steps i need to take or to let me know what happened. I feel awful. I have combined books in the past without incident so I don't know if it was deleting the extras that mucked it up or what... Thanks Everyone, Y'all are great!
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I just checked this authors other books as I had combined a couple of them for him and all of the other books are opening just fine and look right so I am even more confused now as to why this book didn't work properly when I followed the same steps and criteria for all the books i touch including these as i did them all in one sitting. I sincerely apologize to anyone who I may have caused more work for. It was definitely not my intention. I was trying to streamline and combine not cause more work.
How strange, the issue is exclusively with the alternative cover edition here. There doesn't appear to be anything wrong with it on the edit page, I've created a duplicate edition without any trouble. However, it started throwing an unexpected error after combining with the problematic edition!
Eggp your edition opens: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...So does hers: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
I combined all with the "original" edition then separated again and is now working. No idea if it is because of what I did.
Edit: re-combining brings the problem back. This needs to go in the Feedback group I think.
