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Originally Posted by nikoski
Any fresh ideas on this issue about getting title and author from the file name and the rest of metadata (untouched) from the already existing file info?
This is exactly what i'm missing when trying to import a bunch of Epubs to calibre.
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I had reverse situation.
Books were organized in folders by series name and series index.
e.g.: "The Erevis Cale Trilogy 02 - Dawn of Night.prc"
I could add books to calibre using "read metadata" but then I would lose all information about series (there were about 240 books in 70 series)
So, i imported books in new calibre library using rexex: (?P<series>[^_0-9-]*)(?P<series_index>[0-9]*)\s*-\s*(?P<title>[^_].+) ?
Afterwards i converted all book to epub and deleted all prc formats.
This left me with correct series indexes but without author. All books had correct metadata but wrong database entry.
I could go and click "Set metadata from the selected format" but I would have to do it 240 times.
I deleted entire library from calibre.
That left files on disk with correct metadata stored in epub.
Then I imported books using "read metadata from file".
btw: bulk copy of metadata information to database would be very fine option.