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Originally Posted by manawydan
Curious.
I have had problems ever since the file count went up.
I thought the db was simply too big.
Then I suspected the old PC.
And then I got a brand new one and it was actually worse so I thought it is WinXP in combination with the hardware. And of course that the db is that big.
But it seems the problem lies somewhere else.
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manawydan - FWIW I have a 590GB library, ~200 authors, ~7600 'books', it contains lots of audio and video clips and some transcripts
The slow startups can be caused by having
- on pre 1.0 calibre versions showing formats as a column in the library list could lead to slow starts, but that was addressed in 1.0 (new db backend) see https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ximate_formats
- custom columns built from other columns can slow calibre startup and database switch times. I had an example in that 590G database, when I reached ~6000 books startup times went from a few seconds to several minutes. One of my columns was built from a union of three name columns - when I removed the column the startup times went back to a few seconds.
Have you been able to recover/restore your library ?
BR