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Originally Posted by LostOnTheLine
I didn't say I want it to detect & remove all ad pages, I specifically said that I noticed that the signup page was used across multiple distributors, & that since it has the same name, & I've yet to see a signup page that needed to be kept, I want to delete those pages specifically. The end result, when I finish making the modifications I want, is to have a way to add the file names that are to be automatically deleted, & to add strings of words that, if present on a page, the whole page should be deleted.
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Alrighty, well...you need a clip for that, pretty much.
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It isn't "a lot easier" to manually do it. I add at least 2 books a month that have the same page that needs to be deleted. Sometimes I start a series that already has 20 volumes & get all the books in bulk at the same time. Manually going in & deleting the pages is tedious & unnecessary as I now have, from this thread, an automation step that removes them automatically for me.
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Wait....
this is about two books a month?
TWO books a month? Because it's more time-consuming to click, select, delete?
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As far as "safer" well yeah, but I'm fairly confident that I'm not going to find a book with a signup page that I DON'T want to delete, & if I accidentally delete one, I always have the original I can use or just re-download a fresh copy from my account. I understand the risk, & it's a known risk, taken willingly & I'm okay with that
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Meh, safer, you're always working in a copy anyway, ight? So even if you screw the pooch, you can revert and undo the damage. I have working files in Dropbox for that reason (I have a Enterprise account) that allows me to rollback versions, for that reason, too--just in case. Just in case I screw up and overwrite the "live" file, or whatever, I can version my way back to a safe shore.
You could take several of these clips and modify them and be done with it, but at this point, you've probably put more time in, trying to figure it out than you would click-select-deleting 200 of them. :-) I know the feeling, Regex hasn't always been my buddy, either.
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