[jgt1942]

(1) everytime I execute calibredb.exe as the first line of the output I see "Failed to initialize plugin: 'C:\\Users\\jgt\\AppData\\Roaming\\calibre\\plugin s\\DeDRM.zip'" this does not impact the desired function but I don't know if I should be concerned about the error or just ignore it.
(2) When I execute "calibredb list --fields author_sort > R:\Libraries\Documents\_temp\Author_list.csv". In the file as the 2nd and 3rd lines I see the following:
id author_sort
1 John Schember

Why do I see the "id". I do not want the "id" value, I just wanted the author_sort value. I can edit out the ID and value but it should not be in the file.

(3) When I execute "calibredb list -f authors,title,series,series_index,comments --separator "¤" -w 1000000 > R:\Libraries\Documents\_temp\testlist.csv" I get ID field and some weird character before each field. I copied this line from another post by Kovid Goyal thus I'm sure I got it correctly.

I'm running on Win10 x64 with Calibre 5.10.1 x64