01-29-2011, 06:37 PM | #1 |
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Library empty in Calibre
I've been using Calibre for a year or so, with no real problems - but when I opened it today, not having changed anything since my last use yesterday, the library appeared empty.
I checked, and the files are still there (in my Dropbox folder for back-up purposes), the location is still selected correctly, but the books simply do not show up in Calibre. I upgraded to the latest version (0.7.43) in the hopes that this would fix the issue, but no luck. It doesn't seem to recognize that there are books in the folder. I also tried running the set-up wizard again. I'd appreciate any help - considering all files are in Calibre's archive structure, having to re-add them would be a huge pain in the butt... Last edited by evamaria; 01-29-2011 at 06:41 PM. Reason: Typo |
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01-30-2011, 12:47 AM | #3 |
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An alternative is to use the calibredb command with the restore-database option to rebuild the database from the calibre library folders and files.
This does require you to have previously been running a recent enough version of Calibre for the book folders to contain a metadata.opf file to get all metadata recovered, but the generation of that file has been a feature of Calibre for some time now. |
01-30-2011, 08:27 AM | #4 |
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Thanks to both of you!
You were right, metadata.db had been corrupted somehow. For some reason Dropbox didn't have a functioning version stored, but the command line solution restored almost all of my library, it seems like. Again, thanks for your help! |
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