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chilady1 · 11-09-2013, 04:22 PM

So here's what I had to do, not pretty but better than going through my entire Calibre db one author at a time.

I have restored the last known "good" Calibre db from November 5th from Time Machine. My system didn't go crazy until the 6th.

I did look at the books and I noticed that many of my very early books have multiple epub copies, so once the database is restored, I will go in a do what many have suggested which is run the Quality Check plug-in for a number of items. For example, I will have an author twice in Calibre that looks like this:

Smith, Jane
Smith_Jane

I noticed that the Quality Check plug-in finds those folders without commas, etc. I really think this boils down to a lack of db maintenance on my part. I thank EVERYONE for some very good suggestions and will let you know how things turn out.

11-09-2013, 04:22 PM	#11
chilady1 I devour books! Posts: 789 Karma: 1285226 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: iPad Air, Kindle 3/Kobo Aura HD, iPhone 6	So here's what I had to do, not pretty but better than going through my entire Calibre db one author at a time. I have restored the last known "good" Calibre db from November 5th from Time Machine. My system didn't go crazy until the 6th. I did look at the books and I noticed that many of my very early books have multiple epub copies, so once the database is restored, I will go in a do what many have suggested which is run the Quality Check plug-in for a number of items. For example, I will have an author twice in Calibre that looks like this: Smith, Jane Smith_Jane I noticed that the Quality Check plug-in finds those folders without commas, etc. I really think this boils down to a lack of db maintenance on my part. I thank EVERYONE for some very good suggestions and will let you know how things turn out.