[maxlinworm]

Hi,

I'm migrating my extensive library from mendeley.

To do that, I exported my files from mendeley with the filenames: “AuthorLastName – BookTitle”

I added the mendeley files in calibre, extracting the metadata. So, my books in calibre contain only the author last name and the title.

Next, I exported a csv file with the complete metadata from mendeley. Then I tried to use this awesome plugin to update the incomplete calibre metadata. So, the plugin would update the incomplete book entry in calibre with the complete metadata from mendeley.

The problem was that the plugin never matches the books that I had added, because it searches form the author full name, and I only have the last name in calibre. So, the plugin doesn't match the metadata in the list to the book entry in calibre.

If I manually edit the plugin wizard search to remove the author first name, making it search only for the last name, it matches the book already in the calibre library and updates its metadata correctly. Trouble is I have a very large library, so manually editing the search is unfeasible.

Is there a way to make the search on the wizard use only the author last name as a parameter? In other words: to make the plugin wizard match the calibre entry only by the lastname of the author. In other words still: to remove the first name from the plugin wizard search criteria.

That way, the plugin would automatically update the incomplete calibre metadata (author last name and book title) obtained when I added to calibre the exported files form mendeley with the complete mendeley metadata.

Or does anyone have another suggestion?

I attached 3 printscreens for clarity. The first shows the books added from mendeley with incomplete metadata (authorLastName - BookTitle). The second shows the matching problem. And the third shows that the plugin matches the existing books if I remove the author's first name from the search.

Thanks in advance.