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Wimi_Bussard · 05-19-2015, 07:24 PM

Hi,
I have got a little problem and I hope you guys can help me out.

There is a huge collection of cbz-files which I want to catalogue in calibre. Unfortunately, the files themselves do not contain any metadata such as "author". Instead you can find the files in the their author's folder.

Example: Author A has written three books B1, B2 and B3. There is one folder called "Author A" which contains all three books.

There are a hella lot of them, so importing them as usual would result in countless hours of re-tagging the files with "author" which I want to avoid. So, here is my question: Is there any way to use the folders' names with the information of the author?
(or in other words: Can Calibre automatically tag the files with the author-data from their folders?)

05-19-2015, 07:24 PM	#1
Wimi_Bussard Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2013 Device: tolino vision 4 HD	How to get author data from folder name? (importing a lot of cbz) Hi, I have got a little problem and I hope you guys can help me out. There is a huge collection of cbz-files which I want to catalogue in calibre. Unfortunately, the files themselves do not contain any metadata such as "author". Instead you can find the files in the their author's folder. Example: Author A has written three books B1, B2 and B3. There is one folder called "Author A" which contains all three books. There are a hella lot of them, so importing them as usual would result in countless hours of re-tagging the files with "author" which I want to avoid. So, here is my question: Is there any way to use the folders' names with the information of the author? (or in other words: Can Calibre automatically tag the files with the author-data from their folders?)