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Imports Doesn't Bring in all the books in the file.

1JoeB1934
Mar 3, 7:01 am

I have been importing a 4000 book library off-and-on for several weeks now. Yesterday my latest effort imported only 2800 books and my import file has only changed by virtue of the tags.

I never have remembered the import queue and how to see what it is saying. How do I find it?
More importantly, what in the world has happened, as the missing books have been imported recently with great success.

2bnielsen
Mar 3, 7:08 am

LT staff, i.e. @knerd.knitter is revamping the import mechanisms. It's mentioned in this recent thread: https://www.librarything.com/topic/379061 but I don't know if they are finished fiddling with it.

3knerd.knitter
Mar 3, 8:51 am

>1 JoeB1934: What are you seeing on the Import options page? How many books does it find? How many ISBNs does it find? Etc. A screenshot would be great.

4kristilabrie
Mar 3, 9:07 am

>1 JoeB1934: There is no complete export-import loop, unfortunately, so past success is not a good determination of future success. The Universal Import revamp is still being worked on and hasn't been updated (yet).

You can find the Universal Import's Lookup Queue (for ISBNs in the current queue, and/or those that failed on previous imports since the last time you cleared the queue) on the Universal Import page at https://www.librarything.com/import, I hope this helps.

If you're just editing the tags, I still recommend using something like Power Edit to edit the tags in your library, instead of doing a complete export and import.

Let me know if you have any other questions in the meantime!

5JoeB1934
Mar 3, 10:55 am

>4 kristilabrie: My apologies, my conversion of 13 char ISBN broke and I go a lot of ISBN errors which I have now corrected.

6kristilabrie
Mar 4, 8:47 am

Ah, good catch!