Thread: Is metadata necessary to have
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Old 08-30-2012, 10:14 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by Paula66 View Post
Is metadata.db necessary to have in a folder for calibre to recognize it as a library? I installed the calibre app on another hard drive and tried alot of different ways to get calibre to recognise the books I had moved to this drive. The only success I had and it was not with that folder of books but an older folder that I had sent to this hard drive as a back up, was with a my kindle content folder, with a calibre library in it.
If I have metadata.db from a different calibre library can I copy it to another library without it changing any of the content in that library. If I hadn't had a sugarsync capacity I would have lost 50% of my books through my blind belief that my first or second attempt had worked.
If this is a stupid question I am sorry I am just baffled by my lack of success with what I thought would be an easy move.
Metadata.DB is the Library you see on the screen.
It needs to be precisely in synch with the folders in the same library.
That is why you should never mess around inside the Library Folder. One tiny change and calibre may 'lose track' of the book (the book may be there, Calibre just does not know it)
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