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BetterRed · 03-24-2017, 05:16 PM

It was removed deliberately.

In Bulk Metadata Edit, after selecting a format, there was no way to deselect it. If you realised you'd made a mistake, the only way out was to Cancel the transaction. In one instance a user inadvertently deleted all of his EPUBs

Given the robust and less error prone option of Remove books->Remove files of a specific format from selected books... (Alt+Del) already existed (and has done for years), Kovid decided the effort required to make the one in Bulk Metadata Edit equally robust wasn't worth the effort.

BR

03-24-2017, 05:16 PM	#4
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 22,269 Karma: 30317706 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	It was removed deliberately. In Bulk Metadata Edit, after selecting a format, there was no way to deselect it. If you realised you'd made a mistake, the only way out was to Cancel the transaction. In one instance a user inadvertently deleted all of his EPUBs Given the robust and less error prone option of Remove books->Remove files of a specific format from selected books... (Alt+Del) already existed (and has done for years), Kovid decided the effort required to make the one in Bulk Metadata Edit equally robust wasn't worth the effort. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 03-24-2017 at 05:18 PM.