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I managed to identify the record that was deleted in error but its 001 field doesn't match any of the OCLC numbers that were included in the search. Apart from being the last record in the file, it doesn't seem to have anything particular which could explain its deletion.
Daniel Paradis
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From: MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dana Pearson
Sent: lundi 29 novembre 2010 18:43
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Subject: Re: Problem with "Delete selected MARC records"
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
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> 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.
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> Thanks for your help,
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> Daniel Paradis
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> Bibliographic Access Librarian
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> Concordia University Libraries
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> 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, LB 317-3
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> Montreal QC H3G 1M8
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> 514-848-2424, x7752
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