I made the mistake of getting Calibre and loading 1000's of books without realizing what I was doing. Consequently, MANY book came in with author in title field and vice versa ... series+author in title field, etc.
I saved my entire library to disk with the intention of cleaning up the folders and field names so that the preferences would work and distribute information to the correct fields in Calibre.
I got a file/folder bulk renamer to help with the job.
All well and good.
Tested a couple Calibre saved folders (and files) with renamer - OK
Tried to add to my Calibre library using Add Books, Option 2.
No Good!
e.g. G:\Test Rename\Isaac Asimov\Isaac Asimov\Isaac Asimov - Black Widowers 01 - Tales of the Black Widowers.lit
used preferences of:
^(?P<author>((?!\s-\s).)+)\s-\s(?
?:\[\s*)?(?P<series>.+)\s(?P<series_index>[\d\.]+)(?:\s*\])?\s-\s)?(?P<title>[^(]+)(?:\(.*\))?
Put file name in test and everything seemed to distribute correctly
Tales... in Title
Isaac... in Author
Black... in Series
1.0 in Series Index
However, back on the main screen, Asimov, Isaac - Black Widowers 01 - Tales of the Black Widowers show up as Title;
Isaac Asimov - Black Widowers 01 as Author
Nothing in Series!
I have it set to NOT read metadata.
What am I doing wrong?
Help
btw, I would have included screen images, but I cannot seem to get get my PrtScrn to work.
David