my shelves tag not working after reinstallation

[marp68]

Hi

I had to reinstall windows and reinstalled calibre. I forgot to make a complete backup of the calibre before reinstalling windows. So I used the backued calibre library with all my books. I had one book in the library that I hadn't sent to the device. But when sending it from the library to the device, it only show up under "Books". Not in the defined Collection specified in the Myshelves column field.

EDIT: When I in Calibre look in the device, the Collection column field is empty. The MyShelves (collection) specified name is not transferred.

I'm using a Kobo Glo HD
Before reinstalling Calibre, I put back the backuped Calibre library folder to My Document folder.
After reinstalling Calibre was asked a question for which calibre library folder to use. So I choosed the Calibre Library I alreday had with all my books. I only had one book in it that I hadn't sent to the device.

Anyone know why the collection names specified in the myshelves column doesn't follow the book to the device? Or why does not the book show up in the specified collection on the device? Only in the Books (unread)



How can I get the myshelves to work again? The column My shelves is shown. In the Myshelves field for the book the collection name is specified, as for the other books.

[marp68]

I have an old calibre configuration backup that I maybe could use. It's from the calibre version last spring. Don't remember the version number. It is zipped and is called "KoboReader-KoboGloHD-N437585926242-20161026-210608". But I can't find the way to Restore configuration backup.

How do I do that?

Or is this perhaps a kobo configuration backup?

EDIT: It was!

[marp68]

I solved it. In the driver configuration I ticked the Create Collection box and then added #myshelves in the Collections Columns field. That seemed to do the trick.

Is there a way to backup the Calibre configuration and how does one restore it. When I searched for some info on the matter, it just said to go to Preferencies/Miscelleous , but I can't find any configuration file through that.

Since I don't do these settings often, it would be great to be able to easy restore these kind of settings.

[theducks]

AFAIK The collection column IN DEVICE VIEW only works for older SONY
nothing else

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by theducks

AFAIK The collection column IN DEVICE VIEW only works for older SONY
nothing else

For the Kobo devices, the column shows the collections but can't be changed through it. marp68 is referring to setting which columns in the library are used to created collections on the device by the driver.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by marp68

I solved it. In the driver configuration I ticked the Create Collection box and then added #myshelves in the Collections Columns field. That seemed to do the trick.

Is there a way to backup the Calibre configuration and how does one restore it. When I searched for some info on the matter, it just said to go to Preferencies/Miscelleous , but I can't find any configuration file through that.

Since I don't do these settings often, it would be great to be able to easy restore these kind of settings.

On the Miscellaneous page of the preferences, press the "Open calibre configuration directory" button. That is where the preferences are saved. Copying everything in that directory will backup the preferences.

[marp68]

Thanks