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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Install the Quality Check plugin and use the FIX option to change your author names in bulk.
If you want your names to be already correct when importing, then that's not really possible, because metadata has often been entered every which way, regardless of any rules. That's what theducks meant by Wild West - not you or Calibre, but the general situation with metadata.
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Hi thanks for answering, rather than fix (something other people have stated is hit & miss with that plugin any way) after the event I'd like to know the correct way to set this up.
Years ago I swear calibre had all my stuff sorted correctly. I don't know what has happened. I check the metadata of each book as I import it & remove any extraneous nonsense from the title field etc.
Then I convert it.
In the past the edit metadata interface had the author name written like this for example
& the result was it displayed as last name first. ie correctly as I want it
Author(s) Joan Aiken
> Author sort Aiken, Joan
Now it still looks like that but it seems hit & miss as to how it stores it the folder might be last name first name or the other way around. And trying to fix them fails
Somewhere I believe I must have messed something up. I want to know how it should be set to get the results I want. Surname first & given name or initials last. Following the guides in here to change the tweaks section has not worked form me