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Originally Posted by Carlos_ER
Interesting. I did that search, and it found one - however, the operating system file browser could not find any. So I went to library maintenance, restore data base, and repeated the search: none. A ghost.
So the database was also corrupted.
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No it wasn't corrupt, its database said it had one - a search interrogates the database not the file system - see my updated post above
If you use Calibre to maintain the library things wont go wrong, if you try to use the OS to maintain the library then things will go wrong.
It's a hard lesson to learn as we're all accustomed to manipulating files, but Calibre isn't a file based system - its a database system. It just happens to use the file system as the place to store large lumps of data - like epubs, jpgs, odt files etc. Desktop database systems are not suited for storing large lumps of data, at least not the free ones or the widely known ones that run on the raft of operating systems that Calibre supports.
BR