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Originally Posted by Comfy.n
If I understand correctly, you have:
George, Orwell - author
Douglas, Adams - author
Orwell, George - author sort
Adams, Douglas - author sort
Quality check swapping tool would give you Orwell George and Adams Douglas in author field, which you don't want.
In this case, one solution I can think of is doing a bulk metadata search and replace (do backup first the file metadata.db...) to remove the commas in the author field. Note that this will affect authors fields where there are commas placed correctly, for example in author_name_suffixes such as PhD, MD etc.
A related issue has been discussed recently here:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=360805
Also, you may want to check what you have in the tweak setup described in this post:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...10&postcount=5 |
Assuming your hypotheses are correct, another approach would be to in "Manage authors" use the "Copy all author sort values to author" then press OK. At that point the authors would all be LN, FN (if we are understanding the OP). If desired the OP can then use Quality Check to change all the authors to FN LN.
Finally, a scan through the lines in "Manage authors" would be a good idea to be sure that there aren't any undesired consequences of the name changes.