Adding Books: regular expression request

maxlinworm · 02-17-2018, 05:53 PM

Hi,

I'm migrating my Mendelay library to Calibre. Mendeley renames every file in the following format

AuthorLastName_Year_Title_Journal

I was hoping some helpful and generous soul would help me by posting a regular expression to add the books in calibre. That would be most appreciated.

1)When there's no metadata on any of those fields, Mendeley will add "Unknown" to the string.
2) If the title is too long, sometimes the filename will not include the next fields. For exemple: Weiss_yyyy_The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-P.pdf

Thanks in advance

BetterRed · 02-17-2018, 06:32 PM

@maxlinworm - the Import Mendeley plugin wold have done it for you, however it has not been maintained and no longer works. But have a look at the last post in its thread, and then the link it has to the Zotero plugin.

BR

02-17-2018, 05:53 PM	#1
maxlinworm Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2018 Device: ipad	Adding Books: regular expression request Hi, I'm migrating my Mendelay library to Calibre. Mendeley renames every file in the following format AuthorLastName_Year_Title_Journal I was hoping some helpful and generous soul would help me by posting a regular expression to add the books in calibre. That would be most appreciated. 1)When there's no metadata on any of those fields, Mendeley will add "Unknown" to the string. 2) If the title is too long, sometimes the filename will not include the next fields. For exemple: Weiss_yyyy_The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-P.pdf Thanks in advance

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02-17-2018, 06:32 PM	#2
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 20,568 Karma: 26954694 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@maxlinworm - the Import Mendeley plugin wold have done it for you, however it has not been maintained and no longer works. But have a look at the last post in its thread, and then the link it has to the Zotero plugin. BR