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Originally Posted by theducks
Not really.
1)have a custom column to mark Metadata is now Golden. Use a VL to exclude these titles, when working on metadata updates. (outa-sight...out-harms way)
2)Embed Golden metadata into the book. Allows recovery FROM the book. (the brown book icon in the MDE)
3)Backups for those  moments.
4)Plain old care. IMHO BULK (many books) operations are a chance to mess up and include a couple of wrong ones (those you did not want to change).
5)Use the content server for tasks where no changes are needed
6)A second batch of backups (different media and location) |
Yep, the above. #1 is especially helpful.
Additions to my library are automatically marked with a
[new] tag. I have a virtual library based on this tag and set it as the default VL to open (
Preference > Behavior > Virtual library to apply when the current library is opened). Once I'm done editing metadata, that's when I remove the
[new] tag.
I have two sets of backup scripts (backing up to two different folders), one I run before I change anything and the other I run after I get all the metadata and conversions fixed to my liking.
On top of the before & after full library backups, I also make it a habit to create a copy of metadata.db (with a descriptive filename) for any major library refactoring/reorganization.