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Philosopher · 03-23-2015, 10:42 AM

I hope I can get this to make sense and be concise.

Is there a way (or if not - could this be considered) to have upon ADDING books - it to FIRST look to see if there is a FIELD with info in the file already - to get the metadata (i.e. Author, Title), and IF NOT - to then fill out that field from the Filename?

Sometimes I have a set of added books (PDF's in particular) where SOME in that set - have the PDF info set for those fields - but not all of them. Whereas the filename may have at least SOME of that information in it (the issue comes from having limits on the lengths of the filename - so in that case - the WHOLE name is not necessarily there - but MAY BE in the PDF itself).

That's the scenario that this question/idea came to me from.

03-23-2015, 10:42 AM	#1
Philosopher Connoisseur Posts: 77 Karma: 12 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: Kindle	Is there a way to ADD from BOTH file data & file name I hope I can get this to make sense and be concise. Is there a way (or if not - could this be considered) to have upon ADDING books - it to FIRST look to see if there is a FIELD with info in the file already - to get the metadata (i.e. Author, Title), and IF NOT - to then fill out that field from the Filename? Sometimes I have a set of added books (PDF's in particular) where SOME in that set - have the PDF info set for those fields - but not all of them. Whereas the filename may have at least SOME of that information in it (the issue comes from having limits on the lengths of the filename - so in that case - the WHOLE name is not necessarily there - but MAY BE in the PDF itself). That's the scenario that this question/idea came to me from.