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Old 11-05-2011, 09:26 AM   #7
chaley
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Originally Posted by stanmarsh View Post
i think it would be better if i put "blenderart" in both publisher and author? how do i copy the text in publisher to author without requiring me to do it one by one?
Given that you seem to really want to do this, use bulk metadata edit search/replace. The steps:
  1. Make a backup of your library in case things go very wrong
  2. Select the books for which you want to copy publisher to author
  3. Press E to get bulk edit
  4. Click on the Search/Replace tab
  5. Change the Search mode to Regular Expression
  6. Select Publisher as the search field
  7. Enter "(.*)" into Search for, without the quotes
  8. Enter "\1" into Replace with, without the quotes
  9. Change the destination field to Authors
  10. Uncheck the box Split result
  11. Take a look at the test results to be sure you are happy
  12. Press OK.
Do note that there is no undo. Once you press OK or Apply, you will not be able to recover the author information that the above process just overwrote.
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