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Manichean · 08-16-2011, 05:00 PM

I just tested this:
Select the affected books. Enter the bulk metadata screen and open the search & replace tab. Make sure the search mode is set to regular expression. Select 'authors' as the search and destination fields. In the search text field, input

Code:

^(.*?), (.*?)$

and in the replace text field, input

Code:

\2 \1

Note the preview fields, which should show sensible author names now. Hit OK. Your author names should be fixed now. Check the author_sort values. If they aren't right, open up the manage authors dialog by right-clicking on the author category in the tag browser. Select to recalculate author sort values from author values. Now everything should be fixed.

08-16-2011, 05:00 PM	#6
Manichean Wizard Posts: 3,130 Karma: 91256 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Germany Device: Cybook Gen3	I just tested this: Select the affected books. Enter the bulk metadata screen and open the search & replace tab. Make sure the search mode is set to regular expression. Select 'authors' as the search and destination fields. In the search text field, input Code: ^(.?), (.?)$ and in the replace text field, input Code: \2 \1 Note the preview fields, which should show sensible author names now. Hit OK. Your author names should be fixed now. Check the author_sort values. If they aren't right, open up the manage authors dialog by right-clicking on the author category in the tag browser. Select to recalculate author sort values from author values. Now everything should be fixed.