Patrick, my workaround is to edit the author name by adding something unique to
it (e.g. change it to "David Clarke this is the one"), then wait for the
database to update, then go into the work and change the author to "David
Clarke this is the one" then wait for the database to update, then go back into
the author record and change the author name back. It takes FOREVER but it
works every time. ;-)
Karen, I don't see how your workaround will work. OL only shows a certain
number of authors in the author drop-down field, and if there are dozens with
your author's name and your author only wrote one or two books, your author
will not show up on that list. Merging is imperfect because when you do an
author merge, OL does not change the author field in all the works to the same
author record, it just groups author records together. This has caused me
problems. It is better to empty out all the author records first by switching
all the works to the correct author, and then do the merge. Of course, this
would not work in Patrick's case because there are too many author records to
select the one he wants in the author field...
I would say that after the inability to merge works, this is the biggest
problem I have in editing on OL.
Sarah
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