[reup]

Originally Posted by dwanthny

If all of the books are still in their directories you can restore the metadata.db file via the restore database feature, see attached.

Bold words above, my words added for clarity.

unfortunately the only books left are the ones copied by the catalog creation

I do not hope to get back my files, I had a lot of files in the Ebooks directories that are not part of calibre, some documentation created by myself, some ebooks downloaded but not yet entered into calibre.

I am only trying to prevent someone else having the same issue

if I had created the catalog into my /home/reup, I would have lost everything, not only ebooks but all my files. how crazy is that !

I have the snapshots of the settings from calibre2opds and also the default_profile.xml. I will try to post it and you can see that nothing I did stoped any warning from happening, but they did not !

cat default.profile.xml 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE properties SYSTEM "http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd">
<properties>
<comment>calibre2opds 2.4</comment>
<entry key="BrowseByCoverWithoutSplit">true</entry>
<entry key="GoodreadReviewIsbnUrl">http://www.goodreads.com/review/isbn/{0}</entry>
<entry key="PublishDateAsYear">true</entry>
<entry key="IncludeBooksWithNoFile">false</entry>
<entry key="GenerateHtml">true</entry>
<entry key="GenerateTags">true</entry>
<entry key="ReprocessEpubMetadata">false</entry>
<entry key="IncludeOnlyOneFile">false</entry>
<entry key="CatalogTitle">FNA</entry>
<entry key="WikipediaLanguage">en</entry>
<entry key="GenerateCrossLinks">true</entry>
<entry key="GenerateOpdsDownloads">true</entry>
<entry key="BookLanguageTag">Lang:</entry>
<entry key="LibrarythingAuthorUrl">http://www.librarything.com/author/{0}</entry>
<entry key="WikipediaUrl">http://{0}.wikipedia.org/wiki/{1}</entry>
<entry key="GenerateOpds">true</entry>
<entry key="MinBooksToMakeDeepLevel">50</entry>
<entry key="LibrarythingIsbnUrl">http://www.librarything.com/isbn/{0}</entry>
<entry key="TagsToGenerate">FNA</entry>
<entry key="MaxBeforePaginate">25</entry>
<entry key="CoverHeight">550</entry>
<entry key="CryptFilenames">false</entry>
<entry key="IncludeAboutLink">false</entry>
<entry key="SuppressRatingsInTitles">true</entry>
<entry key="AmazonAuthorUrl">http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_adv_b/?search-alias=stripbooks&amp;unfiltered=1&amp;sort=relevanceexprank&amp;field-author={0}</entry>
<entry key="CopyToDatabaseFolder">false</entry>
<entry key="ZipTrookCatalog">false</entry>
<entry key="GenerateDownloads">true</entry>
<entry key="MinimizeChangedFiles">true</entry>
<entry key="VERSIONCHIP">02030101</entry>
<entry key="MaxBeforeSplit">75</entry>
<entry key="LibrarythingTitleUrl">http://www.librarything.com/title/{0} {1}</entry>
<entry key="GenerateExternalLinks">false</entry>
<entry key="BooksInRecentAdditions">99999</entry>
<entry key="CompatibilityTrick">OPDS</entry>
<entry key="ExternalIcons">false</entry>
<entry key="SaveBandwidth">true</entry>
<entry key="AmazonIsbnUrl">http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_adv_b/?search-alias=stripbooks&amp;unfiltered=1&amp;sort=relevanceexprank&amp;field-isbn={0}</entry>
<entry key="SplitInAuthorBooks">false</entry>
<entry key="TagsToExclude"/>
<entry key="CoverResize">true</entry>
<entry key="TagsToMakeDeep"/>
<entry key="GoodreadIsbnUrl">http://www.goodreads.com/book/isbn/{0}</entry>
<entry key="AmazonTitleUrl">http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_adv_b/?search-alias=stripbooks&amp;unfiltered=1&amp;sort=relevanceexprank&amp;field-title={0}&amp;field-author={1}</entry>
<entry key="MaxSummaryLength">30</entry>
<entry key="DatabaseFolder">/home/reup/Ebooks/Calibre/ALL Ebooks</entry>
<entry key="TargetFolder">/home/reup/Ebooks</entry>
<entry key="OrderAllBooksBySeries">true</entry>
<entry key="GenerateAllbooks">true</entry>
<entry key="SplitByAuthorInitialGoToBooks">false</entry>
<entry key="BrowseByCover">true</entry>
<entry key="SplitInSeriesBooks">false</entry>
<entry key="ShowSeriesInAuthorCatalog">true</entry>
<entry key="CatalogFolderName">FNA_Catalog</entry>
<entry key="SplitTagsOn"/>
<entry key="GoodreadTitleUrl">http://www.goodreads.com/book/title/{0}</entry>
<entry key="IsfdbAuthorUrl">http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?{0}</entry>
<entry key="MaxMobileResolution">960</entry>
<entry key="Language">en</entry>
<entry key="GenerateHtmlDownloads">true</entry>
<entry key="GenerateRatings">false</entry>
<entry key="ThumbnailGenerate">true</entry>
<entry key="IncludedFormatsList">EPUB, PDF, RTF, TXT, PRC, PDB, MOBI, LRF, LRX, FB2</entry>
<entry key="GoodreadAuthorUrl">http://www.goodreads.com/book/author/{0}</entry>
<entry key="ThumbnailHeight">144</entry>
</properties>