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Old 01-05-2011, 06:00 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by itimpi View Post
I would have thought that it was easy enough to do this within a library by taking advantage of the Author Tweaks/Manage Authors facility and the plugboard facility (depending on what you are starting with).

This would accomplish all the required changes to author/author-sort and any required renaming of files/folders within the Calibre library file/folde structure. The metadata already embedded in ebook files would then be updated as soon as you tried to do a Send to Disk/Device for ones of interest.
But would still leave all the empty books inconsistent, i think. unless the plugboard step could create an empty txt file and write the metadata to it?
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