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Clytie · 12-30-2010, 10:00 AM

G'day

Last week, I had several thousand books in my Calibre library, and all was peachy. Unfortunately, after that my Mac uncharacteristically developed a serious problem and I had to do a clean install (zero the disk and reinstall from scratch). I then manually copied over key apps (e.g. Calibre), directories (e.g. my Calibre library) and files (e.g. my Calibre prefs).

One of the benefits of this clean install was that I could finally have my home folder as my username. When I moved to this computer from a previous one, this had somehow become messed up, and my home folder had the name of the old computer, not my actual username. So: Calibre previously used the library /Users/old_computer_name/Documents/Calibre Library, and now that folder is /Users/my_username/Documents/Calibre Library.

I didn't anticipate this being a problem, but perhaps I should have. When I opened Calibre in the newly-installed-and-updated-system, it said it couldn't find its library (quoting the previous path), and asked me where to put a library. I chose the new path. This resulted in an empty display.

Can I simply edit the .plist and change the path? I'm really hoping I don't have to re-import all those books, because I spent weeks inputting the metadata.

I do have old backups of my previous system, in case they're needed. I couldn't find this topic in the Help, Manual or this forum.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

12-30-2010, 10:00 AM	#1
Clytie Bookworm Posts: 62 Karma: 2200 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: South Australia Device: iPad2	New install won't load Calibre library G'day Last week, I had several thousand books in my Calibre library, and all was peachy. Unfortunately, after that my Mac uncharacteristically developed a serious problem and I had to do a clean install (zero the disk and reinstall from scratch). I then manually copied over key apps (e.g. Calibre), directories (e.g. my Calibre library) and files (e.g. my Calibre prefs). One of the benefits of this clean install was that I could finally have my home folder as my username. When I moved to this computer from a previous one, this had somehow become messed up, and my home folder had the name of the old computer, not my actual username. So: Calibre previously used the library /Users/old_computer_name/Documents/Calibre Library, and now that folder is /Users/my_username/Documents/Calibre Library. I didn't anticipate this being a problem, but perhaps I should have. When I opened Calibre in the newly-installed-and-updated-system, it said it couldn't find its library (quoting the previous path), and asked me where to put a library. I chose the new path. This resulted in an empty display. Can I simply edit the .plist and change the path? I'm really hoping I don't have to re-import all those books, because I spent weeks inputting the metadata. I do have old backups of my previous system, in case they're needed. I couldn't find this topic in the Help, Manual or this forum. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.