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Old 04-04-2010, 08:56 AM   #6
Starson17
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Originally Posted by chaley View Post
No and Yes. The 'no' part is that I know of no easy way to bulk copy author_sort to author. There might be some tricks with the command line functions, and it can be done using SQL (being *very careful* not to break everything), but I found that in the end it was easier to do it by hand. I did it by hand for some 400 books
One alternative to SQL and/or manual conversion would be to save-to-disk all books in the ln, fn format, then reimport them, with the "swap author firstname and lastname" option turned off and the "get metadata only from filename" option turned on. This should reverse the name. The cost would be the loss of other metadata.
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