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Old 09-14-2025, 03:56 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by ChiTwnGrl View Post
I am editing books in bulk, so I download just the metadata then edit one by one. I don't have tags downloaded so I can edit them myself. However, sometimes (randomly) as I add tags to the individual book, it forces me to add one letter at a time and wants me to choose from the drop-down menu. I have to type a letter, click back into the tag box, type another letter, then (if there is still a tag with those letters) click into the box and type another letter to force it to let me type a tag.

This doesn't happen every time I download metadata in bulk, but when it does it does it for all books I'm editing.

It wouldn't be quite as annoying if the tags I put in were added to my tags, but they aren't so I may type "historical fiction" ten times, because I have "history" and have to do the above process each time.(Yes, I do add "history" then edit)

Suggestions?
Are you deleting the previous book that used that same Tag?
Calibre cleans up many of the DB entries when the last use goes away.
Some folk create a DummyTags book that has the TAGS they want to use elsewhere (no formats)

If disk space is an issue: Just open the MDE and delete the format, that leaves the metadata (and lookup help) intact.
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