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Originally Posted by DrJanet
Thanks for your reply. I see what you are saying about multiple authors. Of course with these authors one still has to tweak it:
Authors: Bradley, Marion Zimmer & Lackey, Mercedes
Author Sort: Zimmer, Bradley, Marion & Mercedes, Lackey,
This is manageable, but my main problem is with the other several thousand books I have. They are, unfortunately, already named in the format I have mentioned. Swapping the 1st & last name wouldn't work due to the extraneous info in their titles, and bringing them in without the sway yields correctly parsed data in the title & authors fields. Then author sort comes along and screws it all up.
So, I'll ask again, is there any way to modify, work around it or over-ride it, without having to edit each entry manually? If not, is a fix for this something we are likely to see in the future? I don't mind paying for such a useful application.  |
So, how many wrong name order Author combinations (assuming the Extraneous stuff got removed)?
Sort your Library by the Author column. Highlight the same names (desired to be exactly the same) and use Bulk Meta-data edit to fix the group in 1 step, only 300 to go.