Bulk import - possibly stupid question

Megahurts · 04-12-2010, 09:25 AM

Hi,

I've a large number (~2500) ebooks in various formats spread out over various PCs and I'm using Calibre to consolidate them all into one location, my problem is this:

Around 50-60% of the books are named {Genre} - {Author} - {Title}.format, and when imported have the Author and Title fields switched as well as including {genre} into the author field. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to bulk-rename all the files and folder to something that Calibre will interpret correctly? I'm running on a Windows box, but can get Linux up in a VM if that's going to be quicker/easier.

kovidgoyal · 04-12-2010, 09:59 AM

click the arrow next to edit metadata and choose bulk edit IIRC there's an option to bulk swap title and author

Megahurts · 04-16-2010, 04:27 AM

The swap Author/Title button works perfectly, the problem I have is stripping out the {Genre} tag in front. I was hoping there would be some hidden feature that would let me import that into the Tags field automagically

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kovidgoyal · 04-16-2010, 05:59 AM

re-import using an appropriate filename regex

04-12-2010, 09:25 AM	#1
Megahurts Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: Windows Mobile	Bulk import - possibly stupid question Hi, I've a large number (~2500) ebooks in various formats spread out over various PCs and I'm using Calibre to consolidate them all into one location, my problem is this: Around 50-60% of the books are named {Genre} - {Author} - {Title}.format, and when imported have the Author and Title fields switched as well as including {genre} into the author field. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to bulk-rename all the files and folder to something that Calibre will interpret correctly? I'm running on a Windows box, but can get Linux up in a VM if that's going to be quicker/easier.

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04-12-2010, 09:59 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,843 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	click the arrow next to edit metadata and choose bulk edit IIRC there's an option to bulk swap title and author

04-16-2010, 04:27 AM	#3
Megahurts Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: Windows Mobile	The swap Author/Title button works perfectly, the problem I have is stripping out the {Genre} tag in front. I was hoping there would be some hidden feature that would let me import that into the Tags field automagically .

04-16-2010, 05:59 AM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,843 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	re-import using an appropriate filename regex

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