On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Reese, Terry
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> Actually, you are misunderstanding how the program works. MarcEdit, as a general rule, won't delete large swaths of records from the source file with this tool. Never has. It prompts you to generate a new file where the file is saved (minus the selected records for deletion).
At what point should I be seeing this prompt? I just don't see it. I
looked at the demo on YouTube and read the help information in the
program. I'm stumped.
I'm sorry to be so clueless. Truly.
Stacy
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stacy Pober
>> Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 6:47 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: [MARCEDIT-L] Problem with extracting records
>>
>> Working with the new update, I'm having a problem extracting records
>> from a large MRC or MRK file. I can search and select the records,
>> and I can export selected records to a file, but with the current
>> version of MarcEdit, I can't figure out how to get selected records
>> deleted from the source file.
>>
>> I've only used this function a couple of times before, and at that
>> time I didn't really have a problem. However, I think in those cases
>> I wanted the file of selected records. Is there a way to split the
>> file into one file of selected records and one file of the unselected
>> records?
>>
>> Specifically, in this case, I wanted to delete the serial records, so
>> I searched for ISSN in the 022 field. This found all the records with
>> ISSNs, and now I want to have a file of all the records *without*
>> ISSNs. I would do this manually if it was a small file, but it's
>> over 40,000 records, so that won't really work.
>>
>> I don't know if something changed with this newest version, or
>> whether I've forgotten some important step.
>>
>> The help file says, "If a users [sic] checks the Resave modified
>> records in the source checkbox, the source file will be modified."
>>
>> I'm not able to figure out what checkbox this refers to. I don't see
>> it as an option in the Extract tool screen.
>>
>> Suggestions, please!
>>
>> Advance thanks,
>> Stacy
>> --
>> Stacy Pober
>> Information Alchemist
>> Manhattan College Library
>> Riverdale, NY 10471
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Manhattan College Library
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