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Originally Posted by dwanthny
I'm confused. How will restoring just the metadata.db make things much much worse? It will create blank folders with no books but it won't cause any folders to go poof, will it? Running a database integrity check at this point will point out any mismatches and you can manually search for the missing items or re-add those items via the metadata edit window.
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I think what he's trying to say is that if you overwrite your (assumedly broken) metadata.db with an older one, and in the meantime had changed some author names or titles, which Calibre would have mirrored in the folder structure, then the older, working metadata.db would point to nonexisting folders while, at the same time, you'd have nonreferenced folders in your library. Sorting out which is which might be decidedly non-trivial if you've changed a lot of things. Thus, making things even worse.