Three ibooks with different name but ibooks claims they are the same

You can reset the internal book id from the iBooks Author File menu as described in HT202692.

Here it is similar: using the export function of iBooks Author, I am creating *.ibooks files with different names and size. As soon as the first one has been opened on my mac or on the ipad (using Dropbox), I can click to open any other file, always the first one - which is now located in iBooks - will open.

As soon as I delete the first loaded file, I can play the game with any other file, however always the first one will remain here....

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iBooks app thinks my two user created textbooks are the same!

Itsounds like you created a book..then used the same same book as the the basis of two more books. If so..your changes did not change the metadata.

iBooks looks at the metadata...and it's likely the cause of your problem.

The problem here is that you have duplicated the *.iba file in Finder. There is a unique and un-editable marker inside of each and every *.iba file that is created when the template is chosen. Circumventing this process creates multiple *.iba files with the same, no longer unique, identifier and all of the *.ibooks files exported from any of these *.iba files will appear to iBooks to be the same and that will really confuse the iBooks.app. The iBooks app pays no attention to the file name.

I made this same mistake while preparing six books for an iTunes U course. My students and I were totally confounded until Apple support identified the cause and fix for this issue.

The solution is to always create a new *.iba file from a template. Once you have that first book the way you want all of the books in this series to look, save it as a template and use that template to create all of the books in the series. File > Save as template. The iBooks app will then know that they are different.

The other thing that you want to be sure to do is to get the title and author entered into the first (Document) pane of the inspector. That should agree with what you have on the title page.

The thing to do IF you have a multi book project needing same or similar layouts....is to start the project by deciding which template you will use....modify it as your content needs..before inserting text or images...and save it as a template. Then use the template for each subsequent book.

Works ... but any suggestion on how to remove the templates from My Templates? I could not find the templates in \Library...

As reported above, I found myself in this predicament well after investing a good deal of time in the first four books of a six book series. So, I created four custom templates and then worked from each of these. Now that the crisis is over, I will not use any of these templates because they are so full of content. So now I want to get rid of these bloated templates. Here's how:

• Click the Finder icon in the Dock and choose Go > Go to Folder.
• To open the Templates folder, enter: ~/Library/Application Support/iBooks Author/Templates/My Templates/
• Find the custom template and drag it to the Trash.

Thanks! I did try that before I wrote, and should have mentioned it ... but by typing in the commands as you indicated it seems to have found a hidden folder... Thanks again.