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Originally Posted by abrogard
I have many .zip files in one of my libraries. They are the result of saving webpages and I find them unreliable, difficult to work with, annoying. But I don't want to just throw them all away because in fact quite a lot of them have stuff in legible form that I do want to keep.
It's terribly annoying whilst plowing through indexing to have to keep stopping and opening these things and checking what they are and if they're good.
So I just had a great idea: put them all in a library of their own!
Which I can hassle with at some future date if I want.
But so far my searching hasn't come up with if or not I can do that?
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AFAIK there's nothing specific.
The Copy books to library tools is an obvious starting point, copies the entire book folder, i.e. you can't cherry pick files. So after copying you would have to delete things in the new and existing libraries
But I wouldn't use Copy books…. I would
move the zips I wanted to put aside into 'data' folders within the existing book folders. They won't get indexed in there, and if you want one then it's at your finger tips.
Use the Metadata edit->Manage data files tool to add the zip file to the data folder from the Book folder (you'll have to browse to it), then remove the zip file from the book with Remove->Remove files of a specific format from selected books.
That may be 'scriptable' with the Actions Chain plugin, ask there if you're interested.
If you wanted to raise an enhancement request to add a feature to the
Manage data folders tool to move files from the book folder to its data sub-folder and vice-versa and look after database integrity you'd have a 'me too' from me
BR