Sorry about that, like said, sometimes what the OP meant and what was read are two different things.
@Helen,
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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
It might be just as fast to create a new library and import the contents. Use the copy structure from current library and the second option in add books.
Helen
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Thanks for the suggestion. That might indeed have been an option but for the fact that I have multiple formats of the same book and that option expects only one book per folder where as I have several copies of the same book but different formats in the one book folder. So that won't work. What is missing here is a combination of the second and third option (multiple books per folder where each book is the same book in different format)
As for the main issue. I didn't bother to dig deeper what happened. I've recovered all books by simply doing a search all files and dropping the result on a nnew blank library window. I'll worry bout the metadata.opf's later.
I've got a fairly good idea what happened but since it's an obscure situation and prolly not occurring frequent enough it's likely going to take a while before the cause is found. That its a bug I am pretty confident about because files do not get corrupted just by themselves and present day file systems are reliable enough to rule out system corruption.
As I said I got a "windows error 5" during the copy+delete. Which means there was a deadlock situation (the error means 'access denied') during the copy+delete.
Since I let nothing else but Calibre touch my libraries (having read the various warnings) I am pretty sure that this is something in Calibre or possibly in combination with a plugin.
Now, all that is part 1 of the problem.
Part 2 of the problem is why on earth a 1 character library path can be considered too long when trying to performing a "Recover Library". And that I cannot figure nor even understand. Plus that the error stack trace isn't helping at all in this case as it would have been much more useful if it had reported the title/author it tripped over. Even restarting in debug mode did not gave more information