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Rbneader · 02-14-2014, 03:41 PM

This is happening again. It happened when I chose the 'Copy and delete' option to move books from one library to another. Don't know why it worked for 50 books and not the 51st, but one of the books that I know I had is missing. I didn't edit the book in Sigil or open it in another program.

At this point I think I need to stop relying on Calibre for library management, because it's deleted at least 10 of my books. And those are just the ones I've caught!

ETA: The library check doesn't find any errors. The book file and metadata are both gone. The only reason I found this was because I put the book in question on my ereader 2 days ago, before copying it to the new library, so when I looked for it in my Calibre library and didn't see it I knew there was a problem.

Anyone have any ideas on how to find other books Calibre deleted?

02-14-2014, 03:41 PM	#10
Rbneader Fanatic Posts: 503 Karma: 2661351 Join Date: Mar 2012 Device: None	This is happening again. It happened when I chose the 'Copy and delete' option to move books from one library to another. Don't know why it worked for 50 books and not the 51st, but one of the books that I know I had is missing. I didn't edit the book in Sigil or open it in another program. At this point I think I need to stop relying on Calibre for library management, because it's deleted at least 10 of my books. And those are just the ones I've caught! ETA: The library check doesn't find any errors. The book file and metadata are both gone. The only reason I found this was because I put the book in question on my ereader 2 days ago, before copying it to the new library, so when I looked for it in my Calibre library and didn't see it I knew there was a problem. Anyone have any ideas on how to find other books Calibre deleted? Last edited by Rbneader; 02-14-2014 at 04:01 PM.