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Originally Posted by allisondbl
So. Is there way to remove the dozens of collections that I assume constitute tags you for some reason chose to assign MY books - I certainly did not - without A having to now bloody do THIS one by one by one and B not remove the actual books from the device.
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Sorry to hear you are having a frustrating time. Let's see if we can improve things a bit.
The first thing I'd like you to do is make a backup of your collections file on the Kindle so that at least you can get back to where you are now. To do this go to your Kindle's directory, then to the 'system' subdirectory. There is a file called 'collections.json'. Copy that to your PC somewhere.
If you ran the plugin with the menu option "Edit Collections" then the plugin would not have created any collections automatically. It only shows you what is on your Kindle and allows you to manually add books to collections, add/remove collection names.
I suspect you ran the 'Create Collections' option which does create additional collections based on what you have in the Customized settings. The default is to create collections based on your tags that you already have in Calibre (which may have been in the books you loaded into Calibre). These may be the extra collections you are seeing. I think I'll change the default to not create anything in case someone runs Create by accident and aren't aware that books often come with lots of their own tags.
To fix your issue try one of these:
Option 1: Use the menu item 'Edit Collections' to manually select the collections from the drop down box and delete them (using the '-' button next to the collection). This will not delete or modify any books. It only changes the collections and is the best way to be sure you keep/remove the right collections.
Option 2: Use the menu item Customization and select 'Delete' as the action for the tags column. Then run Create Collections again - this should remove the collections that Calibre created. However - if you have manually created a collection that matches a tag name, it would be deleted as well. So only do this if you know your collection names don't match the tag names. If necessary you can copy the collections.json file back to the Kindle to get back to where you were. (Edit: If you use this option, make sure you change 'Delete' back to a blank entry after you run it as kiwidude suggests to avoid creating them by mistake later.)
Option 3: If you look in the 'system' directory on the Kindle you might see a file called 'collections.json.backup.original'. This is the collections.json file that was on your Kindle the first time you ran the plugin - so it should be what you had originally. Copy this file to your PC as a backup. Then copy or rename it to become 'collections.json' in the 'system' directory. Then restart your Kindle. See if the collections are what you had originally.
Remember to restart your Kindle to see the collections on the Kindle if you update them using the plugin.