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Old 03-15-2013, 03:27 AM   #1036
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Originally Posted by Meemo View Post
And I'm still dealing with having two separate files for almost every author in Dropbox - there's a Lastname/Firstname folder for each author, as well as a Firstname/Lastname folder.
In calibre you can search your library with the following statement

Author:"~,"

It will return all author names with a , in it.

Then select them all and bulk edit the metadata in Bulk, and do a search and replace. In de image supplied you can see what should be in all the fields. All the names will be corrected.

Now all your books are having the correct author name (fn ln) and the correct author sort name (ln, fn).

Trouble is that your books were allready in Calibre so duplicates will still be there.

To mitigate this i first load books in a temporary library, then do the above. After that i export them to the final library. All duplicates will be gone, depending on yours settings in Calibre.
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