Kovid, once again, thank you for getting back to me. I'll try to explain exactly what I've been doing.
I've decided to do it in 2 parts, easiest [search] first:
I don’t have anything in yellow – (all books) shows between faded out ‘Restrict to & Search (for advanced search click the button to the left)'
Now I'll try the
folder part:
I chose the books icon [shows 0 books], then selected the switch/create library option - it shows my directory below the 'choose your Calibre Library' - I've even triple checked it, just to make sure that I'm not wasting your time
I have also tried using the browse on the 'new directory location' to go to the directory, but I couldn't trick it. When I chose use previous library at new location - I got an error message, saying same as current
I created another folder - my ebooks library - when I chose move the current library to a new location, Calibre seemed to operate, but the books did not move, and I finished up with a blank screen again - with the books icon showing [0] books
I used the library maintenance option to 'check library' - after Calibre checked the library integrity [did seem to take a little bit of time] - I got the message about no errors being found and would I like to check if the files in the database match the information in the database - when I said yes, I got the message of 'no problems found' - files & info match.
What am I doing wrong? I enjoyed getting the program to show my books, but not so much that I want to do it all again :-)
Anything further you can suggest, will be appreciated.
Cheers
Robyn
PS: I am operating under Calibre 0.8.11