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Originally Posted by OldLincoln
I've been giving this a solid try and am close but hit a bump. I'm selecting books, go to Edit Metadata in Bulk. I select the following:
Search Field: identifiers
Identifier Type: mobi-asin
Search For: .*
Replace With: .*
Identifier Type: amazon
NOTE: These are all the fields I see. I don't know where to apply the "\1" you show for replace expression as there isn't a field.
My entries result in the the following:
On books that have a mobi-asin, it adds the amazon ID with the same number as the mobi-asin and leaves the mobi-asin in place.
On books with an amazon ID but not a mobi-asin ID it deletes the amazon ID.
I can use this by checking each book for the mobi-asin id or just take a chance since they all seem to have it. But if feels incomplete and I wonder if that "\1" is crucial. Am I entering this in the right place? I do want it to only modify the books selected, not the entire library.
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Search Field: identifiers
Identifier Type: mobi-asin
Search For: (.*)
Replace With: \1
Identifier Type: amazon
Note the parentheses in the search for expression. They are important.
And yes, this S/R will create a new identifier "amazon". It won't delete the identifier "mobi-asin". You need to do that in a second-pass S/R, changing the destination identifier type to mobi-asin and removing the \1 from replace with.