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Originally Posted by rpresser
I have about a hundred books in the catalog with multiple authors separated by semicolons. e.g. "Larry Niven; Jean Marie Stine". I want to correct these to ampersands; e.g. "Larry Niven & Jean Marie Stine". I can do them one by one in the GUI, obviously. And it appears that if I fiddle with it I can do it to the file itself with ebook-metadata.exe . But is there a way to do it to the database AND the metadata simultaneously, the way the GUI will?
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How many Different combinations?
Open the Tag Browser (wide-ish
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click once (book display)
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Be careful)
now Rigkt-click on thee name (in the Tag Browser): Select rename: Ctrl-C (copy): tap the ESC key
Now select All Books (Ctrl-A or the little box above the row numbers): E for Bulk Edit
Paste the names you copied earlier int o the Authors Box: Edit the semicolons into &, tick the Auto set Author sort box.
BTW if your REGEX foo is up to it, you might be able to use the Bulk Search and replace on a group of multi authors, remembering that some search characters need to be escaped with a backslash
BE careful and get it correct. you can trash a goodly amount of names fast