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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
I dont see how that could happen, but you could then just use the search and replace tab of th ebulk metadata edit dialog instead to remove et al
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Oh, I didn't try that before. Unfortunately it doesn't work either. Again, it will be changing the author sort I see in the individual edit dialog, but not the author sort in the manage author dialog. If I have previously done the automatic sort with the individual metadata edit, the bulk search-and-replace will not find "et al." because it is already removed from author sort (but not in the author manager). Calibre seems to be storing two different author sort values for each file and only tweaking the one which is not used to actually sort the data. BTW: I tried to update Calibre before starting this thread, so I'm running the 4.20 version. It didn't help the problem.
BR. Yes, that is exactly what I intend to do, as of now, manually adding "et-al." to the filename is the best solution.