Hi Michael,

AFAIK you can't choose to only label "some" tapes in the library when using 
auto-labeling. If some of the barcodes are unreadable, you will run into errors.

What you could do, is partition your library and then set one up with 
auto-labeling and have the other one use all the old tapes using the old 
standards.

You could of course also consider staging all savesets from all the old tapes 
to new tapes with correct barcodes, but that might involve quite a lot of work 
;)

/tony

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Emne: [Networker] Q about automatically labeling tape based on barcode

We've finally gotten around to changing our offsite tape storage vendor, and 
the barcodes that the new vendor uses will be readable by the barcode reader in 
my library (previously, we had to use a customized barcode that was not 
readable by the barcode reader in the library). Now, I'd like to have new tapes 
be labeled with the value on the barcode, and I want it to be automatic (I 
don't want to have to type in anything, if possible). It's been so long since 
the barcode was readable to me, that I am unclear on how to accomplish what I 
want.

Obviously, I know how to manually label tapes (I used to have to type in the 
numbers that were on the barcode). But how do I tell Networker to read the 
barcode label, and then label the tape? Without setting the "Match barcode 
labels" option in my library?

(I don't want to set it, because I have all the old tapes that have barcodes 
unreadable to the library, but are correctly labeled by
Networker)

Or am I misunderstanding what I need to do?

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