Thread: Another changing library question, sorry
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Old 10-08-2010, 08:25 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by chilady1 View Post
Your right, but in the folder I was trying to change it to I had the name of the metadata file as metadata.db - Calibre would not see the file. As soon as I changed it to metadata sans db - the books popped right in. The db refers to the extension but I don't think Calibre looks for that as the name of the file. I could be wrong.
You tried to import an existing Library.?
Just drop the existing Library into an empty Folder.
An existing library consists of all the Author folders AND metadata.db

Now start Calibre:
1: point the start-up Wizard to the (formerly) empty folder
2) switch libraries inside Calibre to the new folder.
Since everything is there, it should just switch.
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