Per this thread
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...=mac+calibredb
I created a set of commands for terminal (on mac osx snow leopard) using latest calibre
which I pasted into terminal
such as:
calibredb add -e -t "One more time memoir " -a "Carol Burnett" -T "114" calibredb add -e -t "Treasury of Jewish Humor " -a "Nathan Estillo" -T "114" calibredb add -e -t "Uncommon Law" -a "A. P. Herbert" -T "114" calibredb add -e -t "Absolute Zero Gravity" -a "Devine and Cohen" -T "114" calibredb add -e -t "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night Bulwer-Lytton Contest" -a "" -T "114" calibredb add -e -t "Getting Even" -a "Woody Allen" -T "114" calibredb add -e -t "Small Dreams of a Scorpion" -a "Spike Milligan" -T "114" calibredb add -e -t "Without Feathers" -a "Woody Allen" -T "114" calibredb add -e -t "50 Delightful Witty Provocative Great Essays" -a "Houston Peterson" -T "114" calibredb add -e -t "Take a Bow BC" -a "Johnny Hart" -T "114" calibredb add -e -t "BC The Sun Comes Up and The Sun Goes Down" -a "Johnny Hart" -T "114" calibredb add -e -t "Don't Give Up Charlie Brown" -a "Schultz" -T "114" calibredb add -e -t "Group Sport in Time" -a "" -T "114" calibredb add -e -t "BC Strikes Again" -a "Johnny Hart" -T "114" calibredb add -e -t "American Verse From Colonial Days To the Present" -a "Oscar Williams" -T "114" calibredb add -e -t "Hooray For BC" -a "Johnny Hart" -T "114" calibredb add -e -t "Hey Peanuts" -a "Schultz" -T "114" calibredb add -e -t "The Complete Naffa Guide" -a " Viston Percherbart & Lasex" -T "114" calibredb add -e -t "The Definitive Barber BDQ Bach" -a "Professor Peter Schickele" -T "114" calibredb add -e -t "Love is When You Meet a Man Who Doesn't Live With His MOther" -a "Irene Patchunick" -T "114"
this works, except the record for Hey Peanuts does not get created.
I tried with a different set of books, and sometimes several records did not get created. Which records seemed to vary from attempt to attempt.
If I try the record individually, however, it does get created properly.
It appears as if the calibredb commands are happening too quickly and adds are getting skipped. I say "appears"...Maybe terminal is garbling the cut and paste?
I tried with and without calibre being closed at the time of import.
In short, different results each time, randomly missing records.
I htought stray characters were doing it, but this bombs too:
calibredb add -e -t "Gardening In Containers" -a "Ortho Books" -T "142 "
calibredb add -e -t "Illustrated Guide To Gardening" -a "Reader S Digest" -T "142 "
calibredb add -e -t "Gardening" -a "National Gardening Association" -T "142 "
calibredb add -e -t "Growing Up Green" -a "Gelstely Huckaby" -T "142 "
calibredb add -e -t "Growing Vegetables" -a "Newcomb" -T "142 "
calibredb add -e -t "Succesful Cold Climate Gardening" -a "Lewis Hill" -T "142 "
calibredb add -e -t "Canning Freezing Storing Garden Procedure" -a "USDA" -T "142 "
calibredb add -e -t "Farming And Food" -a "John Terrent" -T "142 "
calibredb add -e -t "Herb Handbook" -a "Pamela Weslin" -T "142 "
calibredb add -e -t "Food Power From The Sea The Seaweed Story" -a "Fryer And Simmons" -T "142 "
calibredb add -e -t "How To Grow Beautiful Flowers Vegetable And Plants Indoors With Lights" -a "Duralight" -T "142 "
calibredb add -e -t "Gardening With Herbs For Flavor And Fragrance" -a "Helen Morgenthau Fox" -T "142 "
calibredb add -e -t "Our Plant Friends And Foes" -a "William Arthurton Dupuy" -T "142 "
calibredb add -e -t "Herbs And Things" -a " Gene Roses Herbal" -T "142 "
calibredb add -e -t "CrockettS Indoor Garden" -a "James Underwood Crockett" -T "142 "
calibredb add -e -t "CrockettS Victory Garden" -a "James Underwood Crockett" -T "142 "
calibredb add -e -t "Organic Gardening Harvest Book" -a "" -T "142 "
calibredb add -e -t "Amazing New Hurry Up An Grow Plants And Gardens" -a "Jacqueling Heriteau" -T "142 "
calibredb add -e -t "Some Common Poisonousmushrooms Found In Maine" -a "Mes Orono" -T "142 "
calibredb add -e -t "Fireld Guide To Wild Herbs" -a "Ed Of Rodale Press" -T "142 "
calibredb add -e -t "Basic Book Of Organic Gardening" -a "Ed Robert Rodale" -T "142 "
calibredb add -e -t "The Apartment Gardener" -a "Dworkin" -T "142 "
calibredb add -e -t "Healing Herbal Remedies A-z Guide" -a "Ryan maslin Shaelaghrmaslin" -T "142 "
calibredb add -e -t "Natural Herb Gardenign" -a "Marie Luise Kreuter" -T "142 "
calibredb add -e -t "Magic And Medicine Of Plants" -a "Reader S Digest" -T "142 "
calibredb add -e -t "Dorling Kinderlslys Herbs" -a "Leslie Bremlis" -T "142 "