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Originally Posted by retval
Do not want to lose my metadata authors, labels, etc. I have over 5000 books in my library and I have worked hard to sort with Calibre. ...~~...
What should I do to keep the metadata in my library?
Thanks.
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If I understand correctly you had a working calibre library on your e: drive. You reformatted c: and reinstalled XP and calibre.
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Originally Posted by retval
Yes, I see. Metadata.db a file and then folders for each metadata.opf authors.
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Simply pointing to the calibre library that worked before ( the directory with the metadata.db file) will load your library as it was before.
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Originally Posted by retval
Before using Calibre, I ordered my library by topic / author / book, but when I installed the software Calibre reorganized the library and stopped (crash) in the middle.
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Am I to understand that you
royally screwed physically altered calibre's database in the form of the calibre library directory of 5000 books prior pointing calibre's new install to the directory? If this is the case you have severely altered the database.
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Originally Posted by retval
I think there were too many books. So now I have to manually check the metadata and add many books that no admission gauge installation. Thanks again.
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Maybe I misunderstood, but if I was correct your best bet is to restore from backup and point to the root directory of your library (where the metadata.db file is) and never change calibre's database / directory.
Read this sticky post for more info.
This
section of the FAQ also applies to rebuilding a computer.