02-07-2013, 05:30 PM | #1 |
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Calibre Portable question
I'm going to be away from my home computer for 2 weeks, so of course I want to bring my Calibre library with me. I've installed Calibre Portable on a memory stick, and copied my library into the Calibre Library folder, per the instructions on the blog, but when I open Calibre Portable, it doesn't see my books.
Do I have to reload all my books? or is there a file (the metadata.db file?) that I need to copy over? except that my library on my home computer is in a different directory than the directory in Calibre Portable. There's clearly a step I'm missing - can someone help? thanks, Becca |
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02-07-2013, 07:35 PM | #3 |
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yes, I know. I copied my books into the folder Calibre Library, but when I start Calibre Portable, it's not seeing them. That's what I mean by clearly I'm missing a step - how to actually get Calibre to see all my books without having to go through the step of adding them all again. There ought to be a way, shouldn't there?
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02-07-2013, 08:30 PM | #4 |
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I have just copied my entire library into the folder Calibre Library and it worked.. Remember you not only copy the books, you have to copy the metadata.db file.
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02-07-2013, 08:39 PM | #5 |
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Ah, that did it - thank you so much!
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