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petzi · 07-12-2016, 01:30 PM

I am back again…

I saw that you were very busy during the relatively short time span of 14 days. When we stopped conversation we had ZMI version 1.0.13 and now we have 1.0.24!

We stopped the conversation when the import with ZMI worked for me. In the meanwhile I had time to check the imported files and it appears that they are a mess. But the biggest problem: I couldn't find any pattern.

The only field which is filled in correctly is the field 'size' with the Zotero file included.
Many times the author is not known ('Unknown"), sometimes not.
Several times the year (field 'published') is included correctly, several times not (about 50/50)
Sometimes the title is correct, many times not.
When tags are added, they are added wrongly, from whatever source I do not know.
In only one case the publisher is added correctly
Besides size, generally only the fields title, author and tags are filled in, even the .csv-file has all the other information in the correct fields. All the Z-fields remain empty.

Actually I do not know how to proceed to give you more specific information. Maybe the best way would be to do it one case by one case. I think/hope that there will be just one wrong program logic which is responsible for the overall mess. So what I propose: I will give you some specific information from the .csv file and the resulting entry in my calibre database. So you can compare and find out what went wrong.

What do you think? Would this be a feasible procedure? Or do you have another (more effective) idea? – Or maybe I did something wrong and I am responsible for the database mess myself?

07-12-2016, 01:30 PM	#56
petzi Connoisseur Posts: 93 Karma: 13884 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Austria Device: Kindle Oasis, Amazon Fire 7 Tablet, iPad mini 4, iPhone XS	I am back again… I saw that you were very busy during the relatively short time span of 14 days. When we stopped conversation we had ZMI version 1.0.13 and now we have 1.0.24! We stopped the conversation when the import with ZMI worked for me. In the meanwhile I had time to check the imported files and it appears that they are a mess. But the biggest problem: I couldn't find any pattern. The only field which is filled in correctly is the field 'size' with the Zotero file included. Many times the author is not known ('Unknown"), sometimes not. Several times the year (field 'published') is included correctly, several times not (about 50/50) Sometimes the title is correct, many times not. When tags are added, they are added wrongly, from whatever source I do not know. In only one case the publisher is added correctly Besides size, generally only the fields title, author and tags are filled in, even the .csv-file has all the other information in the correct fields. All the Z-fields remain empty. Actually I do not know how to proceed to give you more specific information. Maybe the best way would be to do it one case by one case. I think/hope that there will be just one wrong program logic which is responsible for the overall mess. So what I propose: I will give you some specific information from the .csv file and the resulting entry in my calibre database. So you can compare and find out what went wrong. What do you think? Would this be a feasible procedure? Or do you have another (more effective) idea? – Or maybe I did something wrong and I am responsible for the database mess myself?