Import/Export

Scullion · 08-02-2009, 01:52 PM

Hi, to all. This is truly a great forum and a wonderful resource. My thanks to all those who have labored to produce good eBook texts for the rest of us.
I have been using the excellent Calibre to organize my library for my Sony 505 but will soon have to move the library from one machine to another because of a hardware upgrade. I am not referring to a separate copy of all the eBooks – but to the Calibre library that contains all the metadata shown in Calibre. Is it sufficient to copy that library and its included metadata.dbf file to a fresh location and then to point Calibre to it to recover all the library and its info?
i have searched for this info on this forum and this is what the posts seem to suggest, but perhaps a definative sticky might be a good idea for importing/exporting the Calibre Library?

kovidgoyal · 08-02-2009, 02:07 PM

yes, that is sufficient, provided only that you are not moving between case sensitive and case insensitive file systems, in which case there may be a few problems.

Scullion · 08-03-2009, 01:15 AM

Thanks for the confirmation.

08-02-2009, 01:52 PM	#1
Scullion Member Posts: 18 Karma: 60 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: Sony 505	Import/Export Hi, to all. This is truly a great forum and a wonderful resource. My thanks to all those who have labored to produce good eBook texts for the rest of us. I have been using the excellent Calibre to organize my library for my Sony 505 but will soon have to move the library from one machine to another because of a hardware upgrade. I am not referring to a separate copy of all the eBooks – but to the Calibre library that contains all the metadata shown in Calibre. Is it sufficient to copy that library and its included metadata.dbf file to a fresh location and then to point Calibre to it to recover all the library and its info? i have searched for this info on this forum and this is what the posts seem to suggest, but perhaps a definative sticky might be a good idea for importing/exporting the Calibre Library?

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08-02-2009, 02:07 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,842 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	yes, that is sufficient, provided only that you are not moving between case sensitive and case insensitive file systems, in which case there may be a few problems.

08-03-2009, 01:15 AM	#3
Scullion Member Posts: 18 Karma: 60 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: Sony 505	Thanks for the confirmation.

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