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Originally Posted by theducks
Other possibilities were:
1) at some time, you used a "Save to Disk" while it was pointed at your Calibre library.
2) Your Library folder was not empty, when you started or you accidentally saved downloaded books there.
3) You have a alternate library program that is using the same folder as Calibre  |
Yes. All of these can leave folders that Calibre does not consider to be its responsibility mixed in with those it does. Rather than uninstall, one can merely Move the Calibre library. That separates those that Calibre owns from those it doesn't own. If you follow the move with a Check Library Integrity, you get a clean library. Of course, I think this was all done once, so unless you've done another Save to Disk, or one of the above, it should have been cleaned.
IIRC, you (the OP) were at one time confused that a Save to Disk was needed to save the metadata. I wonder if theducks has hit this correctly and you have Save to Disk pointed to your Calibre Library??? That would explain this. To check, try to go through the steps of Save to Disk, and stop at the point where it asks you to point to the folder to save in. See if you are pointed to your Library! Calibre remembers where the last Save was done, so if it's pointed to the Library that would confirm this.
If so, clean it up by the two steps above, then see if any problems reoccur.