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Phyrefly · 06-17-2011, 11:03 AM

I have just installed Calibre, and attempted to import 1000s of books. It took a while (understandably) but when it had finished, there were only 7 books in calibre. It seems that while it ran through many subfolders, it only imported the ones in the root. I have tried drag&drop importing some of these folders one at a time, and they seem to work, to a point. The metadata is messed up, but I can fix that... let's just get the books in.

So I've done this with a few folders, then try to open a book, and calibre crashed (just closed, with a Win7 "the application has stopped working" message). Now when I run it, I get the same thing again - immediately, before the GUI even presents itself (I do get the splash screen).

So query 1 is - what's gone wrong, and how can I fix it without access to the GUI?

and query 2 is - if I can get it working again - how do I import my books without having to drag&drop from each folder? Is there a way to import from a whole dir structure?

Thanks,
Rich

06-17-2011, 11:03 AM	#1
Phyrefly Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: iRiver Cover Story	Startup crash I have just installed Calibre, and attempted to import 1000s of books. It took a while (understandably) but when it had finished, there were only 7 books in calibre. It seems that while it ran through many subfolders, it only imported the ones in the root. I have tried drag&drop importing some of these folders one at a time, and they seem to work, to a point. The metadata is messed up, but I can fix that... let's just get the books in. So I've done this with a few folders, then try to open a book, and calibre crashed (just closed, with a Win7 "the application has stopped working" message). Now when I run it, I get the same thing again - immediately, before the GUI even presents itself (I do get the splash screen). So query 1 is - what's gone wrong, and how can I fix it without access to the GUI? and query 2 is - if I can get it working again - how do I import my books without having to drag&drop from each folder? Is there a way to import from a whole dir structure? Thanks, Rich