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Old 08-19-2017, 04:30 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by jktrigg View Post
I have a similar but more complicated problem. There is useful but not essential metadata in the filename, and essential metadata in the epub itself. I would prefer to get both, but if I can't I'd like to strip the filename down to just the title anyway. The title is "pubdate title (rated: ?).epub", and the epub actually contains the author name. Any suggestions?
See the GetFileName plugin. It stores the file name into a custom column. You import the books using internal metadata. Later you slice and dice that filename in the custom column however you want, either by hand or using bulk metadata search/replace.
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