10-11-2010, 09:58 AM | #1 |
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Duplicates ! and adding new books to library
I have had around 6000 books in my library when I first used Calibre. After several tries, I've got maybe 25,000. I finally figured out that I needed to have two folders, one for my original downloads, one for Calibre to work with. Is there any way to get rid of the duplicate books other than one at a time?
I started dragging and dropping newly downloaded books from a folder I created for new downloads and it appears that there's only one copy of these files in Calibre. Is that how I'm supposed to get new books added to the library? Can I delete these files once put into Calibre to cut down on the remarkably large files I'm accumulating? This is some serious and powerful software- perhaps so much so that a minimally computer literate person such as myself can end up with a really big mess! I'd appreciate any help and advice that anyone has to offer. |
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I don't know if I fully understand your problem, but I'll try anyway.
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Also, while we're on the topic of using Calibre the way it was intended to, don't go manually messing around inside the Calibre library folder. If you want a file from there, ask Calibre nicely via the GUI to give you that file. |
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10-11-2010, 10:44 AM | #3 |
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Thanks so much. Yes, you understood my questions perfectly. I've already backed up my entire library on another computer so have nothing to lose in trying your suggestions. Once I've created another library and moved the ones that Calibre recognizes, can I then delete the original to rid my computer of the unneeded duplicates?
Just a thought-- a lot of the Calibre manual is way over my head-- maybe someone would like to take on the task of writing one for people like me who jumped in too fast in made a big mess of it. |
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EDIT: So, any books left behind you could either delete or check in the Calibre library if they're duplicates of ones you already have... |
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10-11-2010, 03:48 PM | #5 |
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Moving the books to a new library worked perfectly. Once moved, I deleted the previous library (I had a back up just in case). The file is again a reasonable size. Thanks a million!
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