Bulk Import

Enhancement requests or feature requests for future Mylar releases.
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SquaTront
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Bulk Import

Post by SquaTront »

My vote for improvements would be to the Bulk Import feature. Right now, it's not working for me besides recognizing the comics that I'm trying to import. Mylar never does anything with them past the import results screen.

Since you've implemented the tagging into Mylar, it would be fantastic to do some major cleanup on all the comics I've amassed over the years prior to Mylar. If Mylar is working on importing/moving/renaming/tagging on Bulk Import, please let me know and I'll send up some log files so I can get it working.
bntjah
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Re: Bulk Import

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+1 have massive library that Mylar won't do anything with; have to manually move them so if it would be possible to do a massive import that tags and puts them correctly would be awesome!
2mny
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Re: Bulk Import

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Have you tried importing from the Manage tab(http://localhost:8090/manage)? Once you have scanned in you old files you can manually manage any comics that weren't auto-imported from the import results page(http://localhost:8090/importResults). For series that Mylar has difficulty matching you can manually add the series from the search, copy the comic files into the Mylar series directory, and then Recheck and Rename Files. Mylar won't magically import everything without some effort on your part. Programming smart matching and sorting algorithms is very difficult and still requires a lot of intervention from human intelligence to get right.
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Re: Bulk Import

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2mny wrote:Have you tried importing from the Manage tab(http://localhost:8090/manage)? Once you have scanned in you old files you can manually manage any comics that weren't auto-imported from the import results page(http://localhost:8090/importResults). For series that Mylar has difficulty matching you can manually add the series from the search, copy the comic files into the Mylar series directory, and then Recheck and Rename Files. Mylar won't magically import everything without some effort on your part. Programming smart matching and sorting algorithms is very difficult and still requires a lot of intervention from human intelligence to get right.
Sir 2mny is correct - you need to manually browse to the importResults screen as currently, it doesn't auto-flip after it's done scanning (Save & Scan option on the Manage tab). Alot of the scanning depends on how you name your files - if you consistently have the issue name in the filename, then Mylar won't pick it up properly (as of yet).

I am working on the tagging aspect (Mylar will read any existing tags for the files and use those instead of filename-text parsing like it does currently). However there is some discrepancies between some tagging modules and exactly what they write and not (ie. ComicTagger tags the actual IssueID into the comment field, but is the only one that does that), so trying to accomodate all the different types without breaking things is the tricky part at this point.

If you want to see how far the reading of existing tags are - click on the 'i' encased in a blue circle in the options column when viewing issues for a given series (it will only appear if a filename for an issue is in .cbz format since that's the only type of format that supports metatagging). The pop-up dynamically reads the .cbz file and auto-parses the relevant information from the tags and displays it. It's not fool-proof, but it's what I've been able to throw together without too much fuss by the actual tagger that was used.

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