[koland]

I've been using Calibre for a long time and rely on the feature when running from Portable that a refresh of the current search is NOT done after you do Edit Metadata on all or a few of the displayed titles. This lets me remove a tag (used just to track books I've gotten ready to move to a different database), run the Pretty command, then save the lot to disk, then move them to the second Library.

Portable, tho, is atrociously slow in displaying books (3.48, due to Win7 on some systems). So, I installed 64b calibre locally, which fixed the speed problem. I think I've gotten most of the settings back where I want them, as far as looks, reproducing my saved metadata macros, etc, but when I grab the list of books displayed (tags:"xxx" for example), remove the tag "xxx", the view refreshes and I lose all the books I was working on.

Is there a setting that will suppress that auto-refresh after editing multiple metadata (or running Polish) on all or a subset of what is currently displayed?

On a somewhat related note, is there an easy way to copy the sharing by settings from the Portable over to the 64bit version, so I don't have to screen shot and copy one by one?