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Originally Posted by Starson17

When you wrote "books" above, can I substitute "formats?" Sorry to be pedantic, I just want to be sure I understand. I use "book" to mean a record that appears on one line in the GUI. I use "format" to mean an EPUB, PDF, etc. file stored within a book/record.


This statement is why I think you meant you lost formats, not books. If you lost an entire record, you would have lost the metadata with it. Did I understand that correctly?

Yes, you can assume I meant formats. I also usually refer to a book as everything appearing on one line of the GUI, but was trying to be clear. All of my books transferred over, but sometimes the line was missing the formats, the cover, the comments section, or some combination of the above. The series and tags information all came over intact. For books with multiple formats, it was all or nothing.

And if I understand this, you lost formats, and the destination library (after move) had no indication that you ever had those formats. Correct? And as far as you could remember, the Library (before the move) had those formats? And after the move they were left in the original Library location?

Also correct. All of the books (records) transferred. I'm certain that those formats were present before the move. I always have Calibre insert the metadata at the beginning of a format, so I also assume that Calibre was aware of those formats. On those rare occasions that I have a book without any formats, I use empty as one of the tags.

To be certain I understand - you mean "That library also shows all of the book records, metadata, etc., but is missing most of the formats and covers within the book records." Correct?

Hmmmm. If I understood it, I'm having trouble thinking of a way that this could occur. I suppose we chalk it up to a fluke and wait to see if it happens again to anyone. Thanks for the info.

No, that was the interesting part. My main library has 174 authors right now. About sixty of them had folders left behind. Most of these were empty folders, sometimes all of the books for an author and sometimes a random assortment. Sometimes it left formats and covers behind completely and sometimes a copy was present in both the old library and the new library. With Calibre's drag and drop utility, it was easy enough to drop formats and covers back in again.

One other question now. Once I had everything moved, I clicked on the arrow next to the book icon and used Calibre to delete the old library. For good measure, after I closed Calibre, I deleted the folder where that library had lived. The next time, it started in the old, empty library. I ran the Welcome Wizard and pointed it to the new location. Calibre still started in the old, empty library. I tried closing Calibre and using Explorer to delete the folder where my old library lived. Each time I start up Calibre, it recreates that folder again and I'm back in the old, empty library again. How do I convince it to routinely start in my main library?