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Originally Posted by travger
When I moved the library, I expected to be left with empty place where it was. Instead, on the first glance it was indistinguishable from the new library. So after some weeks and lot of clicking around ('what happens if I click this' type) I probably switched them around and added new books to both. Somewhen I forgot that I have 2 libraries and noticed it only recently. (Well, I expected 1 full and 1 empty)
What I'm trying to determine is, what did I do wrong and is there an easy way to merge them.
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When you moved the library, then what is left behind is files that Calibre did not know about. If you look at the filing system level at a library that has just been moved to a new location and find a specific folder/file combination and then also look at the original library then you should find that folder/file is missing. Tidying up then involves working through these 'left behind' files to see if any of them need adding to the new library, and if not deleting them.
Note, however, this assumes that nothing went wrong during the move. If for instance you do not have delete rights on the original lib ray files then calibre will normally silently ignore the delete error. Tidying up is then much harder as it is no longer clear which files are the ones that need further examination.