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Old 03-11-2015, 04:00 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by MrMcGyver View Post
Sorry, I should have been a bit clearer. These are already imported and the series name is set. The title field in calibre has the data listed in the first post
3 steps in bulk metadata edit for selected books I colored the match points
555 Book title (author name)
search title: (\d+)\s.+
destination: series_index
Replace With: \1
search title: \d+\s.+\s\((.+?)\)
destination: authors
Replace With: \1
Then cleanup
search title \d+\s(.+?)\s\(.+?\)
replace \1 you are replacing the title

Always check the test results AND ALWAYS pull a full Backup BEFORE
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