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Clear the contents of a column
I have an intake library that has all kinds of crap in the tags column and crap in the series column. What's the easier way to clear these columns? Thanks.
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Be careful to only select JUST the books you want this done on before launching MDE |
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If it's one of the columns that doesn't appear in the bulk MDE, you can use Action Chains' single-field edit.
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Using Bulk Metadata Editor, I was able the clear the tags and series columns very easy.
After cleaning tags and series, a vacuum of the database saved 0.7MB. Last edited by JSWolf; Today at 11:29 AM. |
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Is there a way to automatically clear those tags when an ebook is imported?
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I tested with .* in Prefs - Adding Books - Adding Actions - button Rules to filter tags... and it worked.
I guess (.*) does the same in this case: |
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