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Originally Posted by wcott
OK...managed to get it back, albeit with hardly any covers or metadata on the books. I thought the metadata.db file was supposed to contain all that. I had copied My Calibre Library onto a USB, so I at least had multiple backups of my titles.
Now that I've completed putting most of the covers, metadata, and series, etc...back onto the Calibre page...if I so something like SAVE TO DISK, will I save EVERYTHING - including all the covers/writeups/series?
In case this weirdness happens again...I'd like to be able to restore everything without spending umpteen hours downloaded covers and metadata?
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If you had saved the Library Folder using the
OS COPY:
Each 'Book' folder contains:
1 or More Formats of the book bookname.format
The 'cover' as shown in Calibre :cover.jpeg
the backup of the metadata, less cover image, as shown in calibre metadata.opf
If thease are intact a full recovery should have been possible, even with a damaged metadata.db
Once you do other types of restores, calibre starts backing up the metadata, overwriting
what existed in the backup