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MarjaE · 10-01-2020, 01:21 PM

So I'm trying to take the prefixes from my titles, copy them to a new prefix column, and eventually remove them from the titles. Yes, that's complex. So I'm doing this one small step a... no! no! why???

And this being Calibre there's no undo option.

I had listed:

"Search Field"

"Search For" with the prefix to search for, and its variations (different numbers)

"Replace With" with the same prefix to paste

"Destination Field" #prefix

It just took every title, and copied every title onto the prefix column. In some cases, I'd manually copied the prefixes into the field, and removed them from the titles, and lost that work... and lost my references too...

Is there some way to get it to pay attention to the search functions?

10-01-2020, 01:21 PM	#1
MarjaE Guru Posts: 937 Karma: 53902736 Join Date: Jun 2015 Device: multiple	Is there a way to get Metadata search and replace to follow its directions? So I'm trying to take the prefixes from my titles, copy them to a new prefix column, and eventually remove them from the titles. Yes, that's complex. So I'm doing this one small step a... no! no! why??? And this being Calibre there's no undo option. I had listed: "Search Field" "Search For" with the prefix to search for, and its variations (different numbers) "Replace With" with the same prefix to paste "Destination Field" #prefix It just took every title, and copied every title onto the prefix column. In some cases, I'd manually copied the prefixes into the field, and removed them from the titles, and lost that work... and lost my references too... Is there some way to get it to pay attention to the search functions?