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Old 01-30-2018, 06:47 AM   #9
LuckyLivre
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Copy Column

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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
Ah you are asking about reading metadata from a filename into a custom column. No, that cannot be done. But you can read metadata into some unused standard colmn, such as publisher and then copy the metadata into a cusotm column in bulk via the search replace tab of the bulk metadata edit dialog.
Hi Kovid, love Calibre. Thank you very much for all your work. I am positive this procedure is covered somewhere, but can't find it in Wiki or help etc. I am trying to copy the contents of a standard Calibre column to my custom column. You just mentioned above that it can be done via the search replace tab of the bulk edit dialog, but there I am stuck. How to refer to a fieldname? For example, I want to copy the contents of "comments" (very short string) to my custom field #length. If you could point me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it.
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