[Bug]: Edits made to author's names aren't saved

[ReaderGuy42]

What happened?

I have several authors in my library where there were errors in the names,

e.g. some books are attributed to John Douglas and some to John E. Douglas, so I get a duplicate author. So far it's fine, since it's just a middle initial, but to make him more identifiable, I change the first author to have the initial as well, and it correctly merges the authors. Good.

However, it seems that if I remove and then add the docker image, e.g. after an update, or I just moved to a different device just now, the changes are reverted to the incorrect state again.

I've corrected these errors several times, and I don't know why it doesn't save the changes.

I've used ls -l to see owner, etc. of my metadata directory, and I see that the authors folder hasn't been changed since April 23rd, which is weird since I've just been editing things. I don't know if this is helpful though. The only thing it's showing as having changed is tmp

Also this issue predates when I just changed the owner. I just did that today but I've been having the repeating errors for a few months.

What did you expect to happen?

I would like the changes I make to authors or books to be saved.
I'm not sure it was correct to change the user away from root? If so how do I reverse that so audiobookshelf can access the files again?

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. See wrong author name
2. correct author name
3. reload audiobookshelf (e.g. after update)
4. author name back to being wrong

Audiobookshelf version

2.10.1

How are you running audiobookshelf?

Docker

What OS is your Audiobookshelf server hosted from?

Linux

If the issue is being seen in the UI, what browsers are you seeing the problem on?

None

Logs

No response

Additional Notes

No response

[nichwall]

Sounds like the /metadata mount is not set up correctly. Does other metadata update and persist correctly? If so, are you using "store metadata/cover with item" settings?

[ReaderGuy42]

I do have that setting on. And you're right, the metadata.json file in the book folder isn't being changed! So that's the problem. Do you know how to solve that?

[advplyr]

Can you share your settings?

[ReaderGuy42]

[ReaderGuy42]

Do you have any suggestions on what to try to change something?

[advplyr]

I would suggest checking the logs to see if you are getting permissions errors.

[ReaderGuy42]

Nothing shows up, even after making an edit:

The last entry in Info or Debug is 2 hours ago

[advplyr]

I found the issue. If you want to try it out before the next release you can use the edge docker image.

[advplyr]

Fixed in v2.11.0