Tips & Tricks

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MarcEdit

MarcEdit has become one of the more complete metadata edit suites available to librarians.

Basically an advanced editor for packing/unpacking ISO 2709 files with bibliographic data.

Potential problems

When installing the app the default path is: "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\MarcEdit 7.6 (User)"

If your operating in an environment with “enhanded windows security” you might not be able to run an app from this “non standard” directory.

And further more - you may not be able to uninstall either!

“Uninstall”

Simply delete the directory "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\MarcEdit 7.6 (User)"

Reinstall

Select a standard location like:

ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
ProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)

Like: "%ProgramFiles%\MarcEdit 7.6 (User)\MarcEdit.exe"

Terminal / CLI commands

Unpack

SET CMARC="C:\Program Files\MarcEdit 7.6 (User)\cmarcedit.exe"
SET ISOFILE="O:\ALMA\Current data export\bib.indlaan.mrk"
SET DUMPFILE="O:\ALMA\Current data export\bib.indlaan.2.txt"
%CMARC% -s %ISOFILE% -d %DUMPFILE% -break -utf8

Pack

%CMARC% -s %DUMPFILE% -d %ISOFILE% -make -utf8