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It really gets on my nerves that it imports even plain html as zip files, even though it makes sense to me that it should do so with web pages. I haven't really been processing anything yet: I've imported several fics, each one a different format depending on whether it was saved from an ancient archive active in the early years of fandom (.txt), whether it was done for a Big Bang or fest exchange on LJ or DW (accompanying artwork = web page), or saved with a downloader from current fic archives (plain html that contains bold, italics and no images). I don't keep several different formats of the same file as I gather many users do. I want my plain html to stay plain html, I would like to convert my txt files to epub, and probably web pages too. I don't understand the need for it.

So, I've been trying out the program again, trying to understand how it works because I wanted to see if I can bulk edit some things in my fics, like this problem with incorrect authors, and I've been reading the tutorials on regexes ad search&replace, and I still don't understand how thy work. I tried following them, but what I'm doing doesn't seem to have any results.

If I choose Edit metadata individually, there's no search&replace; if I choose bulk editing, there's a search&replace tab, and I have several options which again don't work for me. I enter the <meta name='author' content='Grzegorz Hordynski' /> string, and replace it with the proper author, it shows up in the test text, but hitting Apply does absolutely nothing. How do I achieve what I'm after? I have authors who have written over 40 works and I cannot edit them all. What am I doing wrong?