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Old 03-24-2017, 09:49 AM   #1
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Bulk metadata edit - Remove book formats gone?
Not sure when this disappeared but it has and I was wondering if this was deliberate? I'm running 2.82 and I use this function quite a lot when converting to different formats.

Used to be nice just to select the format to remove from the dropdown with a load of books highlighted and then remove them in one hit.
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Old 03-24-2017, 09:57 AM   #2
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Not sure when this disappeared but it has and I was wondering if this was deliberate? I'm running 2.82 and I use this function quite a lot when converting to different formats.

Used to be nice just to select the format to remove from the dropdown with a load of books highlighted and then remove them in one hit.
It's still there. To remove FORMATS, go to the "Remove Books" dropdown menu, not the METADATA tab.
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It's still there. To remove FORMATS, go to the "Remove Books" dropdown menu, not the METADATA tab.
Ahh glad to see its been re-homed and not retired. Thanks!
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It was removed deliberately.

In Bulk Metadata Edit, after selecting a format, there was no way to deselect it. If you realised you'd made a mistake, the only way out was to Cancel the transaction. In one instance a user inadvertently deleted all of his EPUBs

Given the robust and less error prone option of Remove books->Remove files of a specific format from selected books... (Alt+Del) already existed (and has done for years), Kovid decided the effort required to make the one in Bulk Metadata Edit equally robust wasn't worth the effort.

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