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Old 02-26-2015, 08:47 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
"It" probably read my post and decided to play hide-and-seek
Of course it did. Now that I'm determined to clean up all the metadata in my ginormous library Calibre is determined to drive me crazy.

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Virtual Libraries and the Category sidebar have long confused me. I want to assume** that deleting a Tag from the Category sidebar within the context of a VL will remove it from the books in the current VL, and only delete the Tag itself if the resultant physical library usage count is zero, but it doesn't do that. But nor does it seem to do that in Manage Tags. The Tag is removed/changed from/in the physical library.
Wait. If I'm working in VL-A and Manage Tags tells me tag=action only has 7 instances and I say go ahead and delete but tag=action actually had 33 instances in the entire library it deletes all 33 instances? That's...that's... arghhhhh Completely and not what I would expect it to do and could totally screw things up. Why, Calibre? Why do you do that?

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**I 'sort of' knew right click Rename/Delete on a category don't work as I thought they worked - i.e. limit the scope of the operation to the current VL, rather than apply it across the physical library. To me, it seems inconsistent to have left click operations operate within the subset of books defined by the current VL, whilst right click operations operate across all books in current physical library.
Yeah, I have to agree. At least give some kind of warning that, hey, you're not affecting just what you see but all of the books in your library.

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To remove the tag _silly from books in VL-A but leave it in books not in VL-A, I have to select VL-A, then select _silly in the Tags section of the Category sidebar, then select all the books displayed for search tags:"=_silly", and then do a bulk metadata edit to remove the _silly tag from those books only.
What would be really nice is if there was a way in bulk metadata edit to see the tags associated with all of (and only) the books selected and edit them that way. But again, only affecting the books selected.

Sigh. I guess I'm back to Plan B of temporarily shifting each individual fandom to a separate library for editing then back.
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