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Originally Posted by Rbneader
Is Calibre subject to come kind of corruption, or ID confusion problem?
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Not that I know of, and I can't recall anyone reporting random disappearing books
If you open a book format file in an editor program, and that editor program does NOT lock the book format file and then whilst editing said book you change the author or title then that can cause the database and the folder names to get out of lock step
IIRC Sigil does/did not lock the epubs being edited. The Irfanview image editor is another program that does not lock the files it has open.
Word locks the files it is editing, and Calibre will throw an exception if it detects the lock when you try to change author or title. PDF xChnage also locks files it has open which Calibre detects
Whenever I've found errors in the second stage of the Check Library (Extra Titles etc), then they've always attributable to me changing an author or title whilst editing a format or cover file with a non-locking editor or me changing or moving things in the library folders.
I don't get many of these errors since I trained myself to avoid the pitfalls, such as getting the author and book titles 100% correct as soon as the book arrives before doing anything else.
BR