Metadata changes logged?

[Mountain343]

Does calibre log changes to metadata at all? Especially when renaming a tag via the tag browser or batch renaming? I know there is no undo function, but is there a log somewhere, or maybe a flag in debug mode that would save that information?

An example would be:

If I batch edit 10 books and add a tag, a custom #subject, and another custom column like #for_school, in the log it would show the book names and that those things were added.

or

if I rename a tag in the tag editor and it renames 30 books, it would list the 30 books with the new tag name.
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I've been editing a lot of my tags in the tag browser, cleaning up misspellings mostly, and the other night instead of renaming a tag, I seemed to have to deleted it. I went looking through the logs, and I can't find anything that would tell me what books were edited. I know what the tag is, but with 23,884 papers/books in the database, there's no way I'm going to find those 42 that had that specific tag.

I know a log like this would be massive, that's why I was hoping maybe it'd be just a debug flag or something, I just know I'm going to make that same mistake again somehow.

[theducks]

Simply select the Tag in the Tag Browser

If you are changing a Bad Tag to one that exists:

Add (show) the column: Last_Modified: sort on that. The ones that changed will have a (almost) now timestamp

[BetterRed]

@Mountain343 - have a look at the Audit Log plugin ==>> Index of plugins

BR

[Mountain343]

Originally Posted by theducks

Simply select the Tag in the Tag Browser

If you are changing a Bad Tag to one that exists:

Add (show) the column: Last_Modified: sort on that. The ones that changed will have a (almost) now timestamp

Thank you! I didn't think of the show modified column... that would have definitely allowed me to see which ones lost the tag!

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@Mountain343 - have a look at the Audit Log plugin ==>> Index of plugins

BR

Thanks for the heads up on this plugin! It seems to work great with edits made with batch edit and single edit, but curiously enough, it doesn't work at all with changes made via the Tag Browser.

For example if I have a mispelled tag named Los Angels and fix it to Los Angeles for 14 books, nothing shows in the Audit Log.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Mountain343

Thanks for the heads up on this plugin! It seems to work great with edits made with batch edit and single edit, but curiously enough, it doesn't work at all with changes made via the Tag Browser.

For example if I have a mispelled tag named Los Angels and fix it to Los Angeles for 14 books, nothing shows in the Audit Log.

Make a post in the AL thread describing the problem.

BR