Thread: Any way to merge 2 cudtom columns?
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Old 11-04-2013, 08:32 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Down South View Post
Was given a friends Calibre library.
He has a custom column "Genre" which is Comma separated text, like tags, shown in the tag browser.

I have "Category" column which is Text, columns shown in the tag browser.

The Column type is greyed out and can't seem to be changed in both custom columns or I would change the type to match and the names to be the same and then import the smaller 6,000+ books library.

Any ideas how I can merge them or do I have to create a third column combining the contents of the 2 above?
3rd seems to be the choice if the 2 columns are different types (and it is probably the easiest)
Try using the bulk Metadata edit to copy the contents to the new column
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