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Old 12-03-2020, 04:27 AM   #9
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If that fails you want to what you asked for above, you can create a new custom column for authors, use the search and replace dialog to copy all your authors to that custom column, and use the standard authors column for partitioning. e.g for all books that first author letter is a, you put an a in the standard authors list, you can do this manually or use regular expression search and replace.
That is an ingenious work-around. I'm impressed. And it should reduce the number of directories required by 90,000 or so!

Of course, each directory will then have a LOT more entries in it. Might that cause a separate problem?
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