MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Lost Plugboard Data when importing into antoher library

chaley · 12-24-2010, 11:57 AM

From your description, it sounds as if you imported the books from your test library by aiming calibre's 'add books' at the test library. Plugboards play a role during save-to-disk and send-to-device, but don't touch the books or metadata in a library. As such, they would have no effect in this scenario as I understand it.

If you saved-to-disk then imported the resulting folder structure, then I would expect to see the plugboard-modified metadata in the books, assuming that you used 'save to disk' as the plugboard target. Note that an OPF created by save-to-disk will contain the information from calibre's library, not information modified by plugboards. However, this cannot be your problem, because you used 'multiple books per directory', and that mode ignores OPFs.

If you want to change metadata in your library using something with the power/expressiveness of plugboards, then use search/replace. You can create custom columns that match the plugboard values, then use S/R to assign them to the desired fields. As of 0.7.35, you can enter the template directly into the S/R dialog.

And yes, plugboards are library specific, because they (can) depend on custom columns that exist only in that library. However, I don't see how this affects anything in the scenario.

Perhaps you can supply a bit more detail about what you did, what happened, and what you expected to happen?

12-24-2010, 11:57 AM	#2
chaley Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,456 Karma: 8012886 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Notts, England Device: Kobo Libra 2	From your description, it sounds as if you imported the books from your test library by aiming calibre's 'add books' at the test library. Plugboards play a role during save-to-disk and send-to-device, but don't touch the books or metadata in a library. As such, they would have no effect in this scenario as I understand it. If you saved-to-disk then imported the resulting folder structure, then I would expect to see the plugboard-modified metadata in the books, assuming that you used 'save to disk' as the plugboard target. Note that an OPF created by save-to-disk will contain the information from calibre's library, not information modified by plugboards. However, this cannot be your problem, because you used 'multiple books per directory', and that mode ignores OPFs. If you want to change metadata in your library using something with the power/expressiveness of plugboards, then use search/replace. You can create custom columns that match the plugboard values, then use S/R to assign them to the desired fields. As of 0.7.35, you can enter the template directly into the S/R dialog. And yes, plugboards are library specific, because they (can) depend on custom columns that exist only in that library. However, I don't see how this affects anything in the scenario. Perhaps you can supply a bit more detail about what you did, what happened, and what you expected to happen? Last edited by chaley; 12-24-2010 at 12:24 PM.