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Old 05-21-2017, 10:16 AM   #1
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Oopsie. Messed up a bunch of metadata.
What I need: Can anyone tell me how to check/correct a large quantity of metadata when my amazon-ids are suspect? Something that would work on exact matches of Title & Author only and give a list of bad amazon-ids?

What happened:
I've been using the review feature of the background meta data download a lot lately. My titles and authors were in good shape, so it was configured to download minimal fields. Some runs were Comments and Languages. Some were just Languages. The Amazon-ID is implied when getting metadata from amazon.

Anyway, in the middle of reviewing data, I saw the title of a book that I knew was not at Amazon. I checked with a foreground metadata download from the Edit page and it was matching something that was not the same book at all, but the title shared some words. (And my author field was Unknown.)

So now I understand better that metadata lookups are fuzzy and I have no idea how many of my Amazon-ids and comments are wrong. It may only be Unknown author books, but I don't know.
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Old 05-21-2017, 02:55 PM   #2
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In order to detect then undo/reverse erroneous bulk metadata download changes hours or days after they are made, I personally use this:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=285661

Obviously it has to be installed and activated before it can begin to help you undo bad metadata changes, but better late than never.



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