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Old 03-21-2011, 04:28 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by collin8579 View Post
So,, I was bulk editing and doing fine moving series over from Authors

Author - Series - Series index
Moving Series and index to their fields respectivly

Copied over fine,, in my last step I removed the chaff from Author and then tagged the automatically set author sort,,
I was in my search/replace and clicked on my main one (for this process) to look at something,, then went over and auto set author sort, hit apply,,
I didn't realize, to my own sadness,, it would run the search and replace that was in the other tab,,

So, I overwrote the series with the author on 1500 books,, great
Now, I am under the impression there is no way to undo what I just did,, so the first step to me fixing it is removing the authors from the series so I can just put series in later,,

Sooo after all of that,, is there a way to search through for values that are the same in author and series?
I've edited a LOT of books today so I can't just sort by edit date and remove series,,

Appreciate the help,, and that's one mistake I won't make again - Sigh
You can use populate metadata from file to get author names if you have files that have the metadata. As long as you have formats that have metadata inside and you have used calibre to generate them. Even if you have not used calibre most ebook format should have the metadata.
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