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Originally Posted by dwanthny
No, you did not do anything wrong. In theory the items left behind were not part of calibre's database according to the metadata.db file. That is to say that calibre moved everything its database currently understood to be part of its library.
I don't know why you had so much unclaimed stuff, I'm guessing this was your first library. Don't use explorer to just move the folders to the new location. None of the items left behind are known to calibre so if you need to add them back in to your library make sure you do it via the GUI.
The good news is after this you will have a clean database.
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But that's the funny thing. They were known to Calibre before I made the move. They appeared in Calibre, they had metadata and covers, Calibre converted some of them to other formats, and even put them on my reader. In fact, I use tags to indicate when a book has been converted or transferred to my reader and some of those books stayed behind. I know Calibre converted them because I have Calibre put the cover and comments at the beginning of each book. When I put something into Calibre, I've always used Calibre to manage it and I've always done the metadata and covers immediately so that the records are as clean as possible.
Also, I read the manual before I started building my Calibre library and I lurk here, so I've known from the start to treat the Calibre library like a black box and leave it alone. I've never mucked around in the Calibre library folders. Some of the items left behind were added as recently as last month, so it wasn't all my early stuff either. It's easy enough to fix, just puzzling why it happened.