Download Library EXCEPT Audio and Video
I got a new laptop and need to download my L10 library onto it. However, I would like to download everything EXCEPT audio and video. Is there a way to do this?
In the same vein, is there a way to undownload all L10 audio and video en bulk on my old laptop where it is already downloaded?
Thanks!
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You can filter your library to exclude media (audio & video): * ANDNOT type:media
Then select everything, open the Info panel if it's not already open, and click Download.
Similarly to remove all the audio and video, filter library (type:media), click the "Downloaded" dropdown menu and then click "Remove from device".
The only hiccup I can envision is if some of the media files are downloaded already and some aren't. I don't know of a way to filter the library on just those that are already downloaded. So in this case, if you select a mixture, the Download button will show up (with the number of resources to be downloaded). You don't have the option at this point to remove the ones that are on the device. You'd have to download the remaining ones and then remove all of them. But if you're short on disk space, this might not work.
Maybe someone else can pipe in if there is a library filter for downloaded status that I'm not aware of.
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Maybe someone else can pipe in if there is a library filter for downloaded status that I'm not aware of.
You can just select things that are downloaded using This Device
Applying that filter and Type: Media Collection should get you close
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Applying that filter and Type: Media Collection should get you close
Even though this bolded text happens to work in my Library, I prefer to teach people to put quotation marks around the parameters of the search fields in the Library, because you can get unexpected results if not. The colon of the search field has priority over the space between words in a phrase; the latter is interpreted as an implied AND. For example, author:william abraham finds all books by authors whose first name is William (last name could be anything) AND that mention Abraham anywhere in their metadata, which is probably not what you wanted.
Whereas author:"william abraham" finds all books by the author named "William Abraham" which is most likely what you wanted.
So I'd write this as type:"media collection" (it is not case sensitive so I don't bother using capital letters).
I know that Clause Search messes up our fine teaching of this needed syntax in the Library, because it doesn't require " " around parameters, and indeed doesn't even provide them when you select from a list of proposed options (see Dave Hooton's and my exchange on this thread). I find that puzzling and confusing how to explain the difference to users. I wish they'd be consistent. Requiring the quotation marks makes more sense to my software engineer brain.
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Even though this bolded text happens to work in my Library, I prefer to teach people to put quotation marks around the parameters of the search fields in the Library, because you can get unexpected results if not.
I agree Rosie - and apologies that I wasn't clearer. The Media Collection was added in by selecting that in the Type Filter. I didn't enter it manually.
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Thanks, I will try that.
1.) To select all in library, Shift + click the first entry, then Shift + click the last entry. Correct?
2.) Isn't there a way to specify online what does and doesn't automatically download offline? Seems I saw that somewhere. Can it specify en bulk about audio and video?0 -
1.) To select all in library, Shift + click the first entry, then Shift + click the last entry. Correct?
You wouldn't need to hold down Shift when you click the first entry, just click. Then Shift + click the last entry. Shift + click always extends the selection from where it's currently anchored to wherever you click.
But a quicker way is to click on any entry in the library and then press Ctrl+A (for Select All). Then you don't need to scroll all the way to the last item to Shift+click on it.
2.) Isn't there a way to specify online what does and doesn't automatically download offline? Seems I saw that somewhere. Can it specify en bulk about audio and video?
I don't know the answer to that.
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