Thread: My Calibre library is missing
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Old 10-19-2013, 02:06 AM   #3
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Since you were comparing your plight to someone who had problems 4+ years ago using ver 0.6.x of calibre I decided the two incidents have nothing in common so I moved the post to its own thread
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The Calibre Library directory is now empty.
The calibre library being empty indicates that the metadata.db file went missing.

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This is not something I could accidentally have done, either. It would have taken considerable effort for me to have moved these files.
Accident, corruption who can say.

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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.
There is zero trend as of today that indicates folks are loosing their entire physical library.

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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.
Forget about the trash, are there epub files anywhere on your hardisk?

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I think we must consider the possibility that Calibre really has a bug, and a really bad one.
One person with a problem does not a really bad bug make.

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