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RPGoldman · 10-18-2013, 06:03 PM

I have had the same experience as this user reports.

I am on a Mac, Mac OSX, Lion.

The Calibre Library directory is now empty. Asking Calibre (new copy of 1.7.0 this afternoon) to rebuild the library gets a message that the rebuild completed successfully, but there are still no files.

This is not something I could accidentally have done, either. It would have taken considerable effort for me to have moved these files. The fact that this has happened on a Mac as well as on Windows tends to say that it's more likely to be Calibre than a bug in Windows as others have suggested.

I have looked for these files using the 'find' program and spotlight. AFAICT they are simply gone. There are no .epub files in the Trash folder, so they didn't get deleted through the finder.

I think we must consider the possibility that Calibre really has a bug, and a really bad one.

I am traveling now, but I will try to recover my library from my Time Machine backup.

10-18-2013, 06:03 PM	#1
RPGoldman Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2013 Device: Calibre	My Calibre library is missing I have had the same experience as this user reports. I am on a Mac, Mac OSX, Lion. The Calibre Library directory is now empty. Asking Calibre (new copy of 1.7.0 this afternoon) to rebuild the library gets a message that the rebuild completed successfully, but there are still no files. This is not something I could accidentally have done, either. It would have taken considerable effort for me to have moved these files. The fact that this has happened on a Mac as well as on Windows tends to say that it's more likely to be Calibre than a bug in Windows as others have suggested. I have looked for these files using the 'find' program and spotlight. AFAICT they are simply gone. There are no .epub files in the Trash folder, so they didn't get deleted through the finder. I think we must consider the possibility that Calibre really has a bug, and a really bad one. I am traveling now, but I will try to recover my library from my Time Machine backup.