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ldolse · 09-17-2010, 11:26 AM

I guess the bug where Calibre occasionally decides to send your books to /dev/null is still around. Just found a book I was recently working with gone, probably because of some metadata change, but not sure, haven't touched it for a week or so. The book entry is there in the Calibre database, but the books are gone.

I have a database integrity check running, which I think is the only workaround for this, but I wanted to see what other books were affected. Isn't there some search you can do to look for book records with no books? I thought it was format"=NONE" or something along those lines, but no luck. (DB integrity check says two books are affected, but would like to be able to do the search)

Is there any way to make Calibre more bulletproof in this regard, maybe create new directories and copy files over, and then kill the old directory only after the transfer is verified?

09-17-2010, 11:26 AM	#1
ldolse Wizard Posts: 1,337 Karma: 123455 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Malaysia Device: PRS-650, iPhone	Searching for 'no' formats I guess the bug where Calibre occasionally decides to send your books to /dev/null is still around. Just found a book I was recently working with gone, probably because of some metadata change, but not sure, haven't touched it for a week or so. The book entry is there in the Calibre database, but the books are gone. I have a database integrity check running, which I think is the only workaround for this, but I wanted to see what other books were affected. Isn't there some search you can do to look for book records with no books? I thought it was format"=NONE" or something along those lines, but no luck. (DB integrity check says two books are affected, but would like to be able to do the search) Is there any way to make Calibre more bulletproof in this regard, maybe create new directories and copy files over, and then kill the old directory only after the transfer is verified?