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Fred1:

--- Quote from: BradATIMA on September 03, 2015, 04:03:43 pm ---1. Fixed: Copy/Paste of file list data was only pasting file pathnames, not the data from the list grid.

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Does this mean that you can paste data from a spreadsheet (Numbers App) to MC's views for tagging?
Would programs like KeyboardMaestro work now when pasting to fields in MC's grid?

glynor:

--- Quote from: Fred1 on September 03, 2015, 11:21:18 pm ---Does this mean that you can paste data from a spreadsheet (Numbers App) to MC's views for tagging?
Would programs like KeyboardMaestro work now when pasting to fields in MC's grid?

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It is about pasting out of MC into external applications.

You can copy the contents of a view and paste them into Excel (or anything that can accept Comma Separated Value lists).  I can confirm it works again on the Mac version tomorrow, but this has long-worked on MC on Windows (and apparently previously on Mac, and it broke at some point). They fixed it.

It is not about pasting anything into MC.

Fred1:

--- Quote from: glynor on September 04, 2015, 01:19:30 am ---It is not about pasting anything into MC.

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Oh, that's bad news  :'(.
It would be so cool if you could get data out of MC, then process it outside and finally paste the processed data back to MC.

Would make cleaning up metadata very effective.

glynor:
MC can import metadata using the MPL file format. So it is possible to do so if you can export out a text file and make it into an MPL.

What kind of cleanup are you looking to do externally?  MC has very powerful text manipulation tools built in. If you feel you need to do it externally, there are probably a bunch of tricks you don't know about.

Fred1:
I have tons of titles to clean up.
For example all names like "Blah blah (live)" have to read "Blah blah" and " (live)" has to go as "Live" into it's own field. And there are many other cases. 

I do it with the MC expression language, including RegExes.
Nevertheless it is very time consuming either to type in the expressions into the respecting fields or copy them out of a textfile and paste them into these fields (even if i mark some or many lines).

If MC were able to accept textmacros from programs like Keyboard Maestro or others, or MC could execute its own macros, it would be easier. But that's not the case.

So processing the data externally (perhaps with Perl or AppleScript) would be a great progress if the result could be pasted back to MC.

I have no clue how the MPL file format is constructed.
Perhaps this would be another way to do things, but more complicated.

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