Media formats missing by adding folders/subfolders. Can only add them at once?

[nami]

Hi,

I added 6000 folders to a new library. Each folder has an .opf metadata file. There are many folders with formats other than e-book files, like mp4, mp3, etc.

When I used add from folders/subfolders, I didn't noticed that it only adds e-books. So now I have many entries with missing formats.

I searched and found out here that I should allow addition of non e-book files in settings.

Now the question is, can I add only these missing formats to related book entries at once? or should I do another import from scratch?

Thanks

[theducks]

Preferences: adding Books: TICK Auto-merge added books: IGNORE

Remember to put it back when done

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by nami

Hi,

I added 6000 folders to a new library. Each folder has an .opf metadata file. There are many folders with formats other than e-book files, like mp4, mp3, etc.

When I used add from folders/subfolders, I didn't noticed that it only adds e-books. So now I have many entries with missing formats.

I searched and found out here that I should allow addition of non e-book files in settings.

Now the question is, can I add only these missing formats to related book entries at once? or should I do another import from scratch?

Thanks

AFAIK there's no simple way to add different non-ebook format files to existing books in bulk. So, I'd start from scratch.

That Edit Rule dialogue you found might have changed a bit - this should work.



BR

[nami]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

AFAIK there's no simple way to add different non-ebook format files to existing books in bulk. So, I'd start from scratch.

The theducks's hint helped to work around duplicates and this will only add new formats.

I used a single dot for regex pattern that is similar to global pattern single asterisk.

We can also use something like this regex for pattern to filter added files (this won't match files without extension!):

.*\.(apk|mp3|mp4)$

this will make the process faster. (I thought about and tested this after reading your post.)

In my case I can get a list of all file types I have in folder and use the needed ones.