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Originally Posted by chilady1
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.
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You can't just swap DB's in willy-nilly.
The DB is just 1/2 of the Database. The other half is the FOLDERS (and contents) They are a Siamese (sneaked my cat in there
) pair
Rename an Author and the folder that contains
that book changes
Rename the Title and the Folder for THAT changes
Add a format (also by conversion) and there is a DB entry for even that.
This is why we keep harping on 'Don't make ANY changes using the OS'
1 tiny case mismatch and it is a
broken 
entry