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Dana Pearson <[log in to unmask]>
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MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:42:42 -0600
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perhaps your file contained a record with two duplicates?  take a look
at the 18 though you likely have already done so

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Daniel Paradis
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I tried deleting MARC records from a file using the function under Tools >
> Select MARC records > Delete selected MARC records. I did a batch search
> using a text file containing 17 OCLC records numbers extracted from field
> 001 in the source file. The source file contains 13983 records but the file
> created after the deletion contains 13965 records, even though I got the
> message that only 17 records had been selected after running the batch
> search. Since only the selected records should have been deleted, I should
> have ended up with 13966 records instead of 13965. Has anyone ever
> experienced something like this? Is there an explanation for the
> inconsistent result? I tried deleting 19 records from a different source
> file using the same method with a different text file and got the results
> that I expected. However, I kept deleting 18 records instead of 17 when
> redoing my original operation, even after using a copy of the source file or
> a new version of the text file.
>
>
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
>
>
> Daniel Paradis
>
>
>
> Bibliographic Access Librarian
>
> Concordia University Libraries
>
> 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, LB 317-3
>
> Montreal QC H3G 1M8
>
> 514-848-2424, x7752
>
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Dana Pearson
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